Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Am Donnerstag, dem 24.02.2022 um 09:13 +0100 schrieb Luca Fascione: >> Last thought: as I am currently learning Scheme and Guile, and I >> noticed 3.0.x has been out for a couple years now and seems to be >> benchmarking with speeds comparable to the 1.8.x line (according to >> their release notes). > > It's important to differentiate between their benchmarks and the real- > world impact on a complex project like LilyPond. There have been > preliminary tests and they indicate that it's still a lot slower than > Guile 1.8 without bytecode. Whether it will be faster than Guile 2.2 > for our use-cases afterwards, I don't know. I seem to remember that 3.0 vs 2.2 is not all that much of a difference: the large jump was 2.0 to 2.2 due to a different byte code machine. -- David Kastrup
