Re: Performance tracking

2012-05-05 Thread Noah Lavine
It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent compiling Scheme code, rather than C code. One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the portion of compile-time where the interpreter is

Re: Performance tracking

2012-05-05 Thread David Kastrup
Noah Lavine writes: > It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent > compiling Scheme code, rather than C code. > > One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster > if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the > portion of comp

Re: Performance tracking

2012-05-05 Thread Noah Lavine
Oh, I was unclear. I meant that the existing copy of Guile would run the compiler from the new copy of Guile. In the worst case you'd have to bootstrap, but that's what we do now, every time. Noah On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:42 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Noah Lavine writes: > >> It appears to me

Re: Performance tracking

2012-05-05 Thread David Kastrup
Noah Lavine writes: >> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:42 PM, David Kastrup wrote: >>> Noah Lavine writes: >>> It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent compiling Scheme code, rather than C code. One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could comp

Re: Performance tracking

2012-05-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Noah, Noah Lavine skribis: > One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster > if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the > portion of compile-time where the interpreter is running the compiler. > This is how most compilers do it - you want anot

Re: Performance tracking

2012-05-05 Thread dsmich
Noah Lavine wrote: > It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent > compiling Scheme code, rather than C code. > > One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster > if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the > portion o

Re: Who moderates the scheme-reports list?

2012-05-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Alex Shinn writes: > The moderator is mostly inactive. Is subscribing > really such a problem for people? If subscribers can post without moderation, then I will be glad to subscribe. Thanks, Mark

Re: Who moderates the scheme-reports list?

2012-05-05 Thread Alex Shinn
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Alex Shinn writes: >> The moderator is mostly inactive.  Is subscribing >> really such a problem for people? > > If subscribers can post without moderation, > then I will be glad to subscribe. Yes, of course they can. I think at least 95%

Re: Chunked Encoding

2012-05-05 Thread Ian Price
ccing Daniel Hartwig, since he has been a bigger cheerleader for chunked encoding than I have so far :). Andy Wingo writes: > On_Thu 29 Sep 2011 16:09, Ian Price writes: > >> If you've used the (web ...) modules, you may have noticed that guile >> does not currently support chunked-encoding. S