* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:32:07PM CEST: > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >BTW, we eventually need to talk about m4 execution time, too. > >bootstrapping HEAD is much slower than branch-2-0, which in turn is much > >slower than branch-1-5. Does m4 scale exponentially in the maximal > >encountered macro depth? How can I find this out, and could something > >be done about it? Note I have shyed away from m4 as much as I could > >until now, so a documentation hint should suffice for a start. > > Maybe we should switch from m4 to GUILE. GUILE can do just about > anything so it could pretend to be m4.
And in what way would that address my point? Can it do anything *quickly*? Note that I have been completely ignorant of guile so far. Note also that I have not criticized m4, I have merely asked for information. Regards, Ralf
