GNU Guile 2.9.1 Released [beta]

2018-10-10 Thread Andy Wingo
We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.9.1. This is the first pre-release of what will eventually become the 3.0 release series. Compared to the current stable series (2.2.x), Guile 2.9.1 adds support for just-in-time native code generation, speeding up all Guile programs. See the NEWS ex

Re: GNU Guile 2.9.1 Released [beta]

2018-10-10 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
Congratulations to fantastic work! I wonder if your evaluator speed estimates aren't too humble? With this email, I attach scheme and python versions of a (maybe buggy---just wrote it) algorithm for finding Ramanujan numbers. It's essentially the same algorithm for both languages, although Scheme

Re: GNU Guile 2.9.1 Released [beta]

2018-10-10 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
Then a bug report: I find that there seems to be some kind of racing condition such that the guile-2.9.1 timing line below sometimes gives segmentation fault. I'm sorry that I don't have time to look further into that right now, and hope that someone else also can reproduce it. Best regards, Mika