GNU Guile 2.0.6 released

2012-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.0.6, the next maintenance release for the 2.0.x stable series. The Guile web page is located at http://gnu.org/software/guile/ . Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide va

Re: GNU Guile 2.0.6 released

2012-07-07 Thread Ian Price
My thanks to Ludovic, Andy, and all other contributors for their help in this release. -- Ian Price "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"

Re: A vm for native code in guile

2012-07-07 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
Hi, Branching now works and a big enough subset of the VM is translatable for some interesting benchmarks to be done. So by skipping the goto structure a the win is maybe 3-4x for simple numerical loops. I do expect these loop ta be another factor of 2 when the wip-rtl is translated in the same w