Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime

2021-01-25 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
olivier.dion--- via General Guile related discussions writes: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions > wrote: >> Hey Olivier! >> >> I've heard that guile is generally faster than python, but there are >> some other schemes that are faster, notably chez sch

Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime

2021-01-24 Thread jbranso
Awesome! Well done chap! Jolly good sport! January 24, 2021 11:25 AM, "Olivier Dion" wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions > > wrote: > >> Hey Olivier! >> >> I've heard that guile is generally faster than python, but there are >> some other sche

Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime

2021-01-24 Thread olivier . dion--- via General Guile related discussions
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions wrote: > Hey Olivier! > > I've heard that guile is generally faster than python, but there are > some other schemes that are faster, notably chez scheme. Yes. I remember seing somewhere that Guile is much more energy effi

Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime

2020-12-27 Thread Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions
Hey Olivier! I've heard that guile is generally faster than python, but there are some other schemes that are faster, notably chez scheme. I will also say that Andy Wingo (one of the guile maintainers) is working on making guile code "within" an order of magnitude of the speed of C code. I wou

Using Guile for soft-realtime

2020-11-11 Thread Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions
Hi Guile's community, I would like to use Guile as a scripting engine for a soft-realtime software. I'm a little bit worried about the asynchronous nature of the GC and its nondeterministic time. Searching in the manual, I found the section 5.7.4.2 about performance constraints, which is empty u