[ANN] Chickadee 0.2.0 released

2017-01-26 Thread Thompson, David
Hello Guilers, I am happy to announce the release of Chickadee 0.2.0. Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile Scheme built on top of SDL2 and OpenGL that aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D (and eventually 3D) games in Scheme, s

Guile benchmark

2017-01-26 Thread Rchar
Hello, I wanted to compare Guile scheme to other scheme implementations and I found this:https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/benchmark.html Is Guile slow or fast, comparing to others? Is Guile scheme slows down entire GuixSD (If Guile speeds up, GuixSD also speeds up)? Recently I found sch

extension paths

2017-01-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
I'd like to ask for help/clarification (and maybe even volunteer to write the required code) to resolve this extension-loading problem. I have almost a dozen C++ shared libs that implement guile modules, and regularly struggle to get them loaded correctly. First, they need to be installed into o

Re: guile can't find a chinese named file

2017-01-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
It's a bug. There have been bugs on and off with guile utf8 handling. One of the guile-2.0 versions does almost everything right, but utf8 is semi-broken, again in 2.2 -- some things work, but various things that used to work great are now broken (again). I'm guessing that guile has a weak/non-ex

Re: Guile benchmark

2017-01-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Mike Gran wrote: > > On Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:31 AM, Rchar wrote: > > >> Is Guile slow or fast, comparing to others? > > Guile is about average compared to the others. But it depends > on the specific task. It is usually not the fastest or slowest. FWIW,