Hello, Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi, > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 17:15, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > >>> by rewriting some of the >>> code in a more performance-oriented language like C? >> >> No. >> >> Guile is not the bottleneck. > > For what it is worth, some months ago I gave a look to ’sort’. > > The current implementation provided by Guile is written in C. Guess > what? I wrote some pure Guile as fast as such C (if not faster!). > > https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2024-02-05-guile-sort/index.html > > To make explicit my understanding of Ricardo’s answer: no it’s not the > Scheme compiler provided by Guile that is the current performance > bottleneck but there is still room of improvement for the whole Guile > (Garbage Collection, Standard Library, etc.). Thanks for sharing; that was a fun (and impressive!) read. Congrats for the blog post and new sort Scheme implementation! -- Thanks, Maxim
