Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

olivier.dion--- via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org> 
writes:

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020, Joshua Branson via General Guile related discussions 
> <guile-user@gnu.org> 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
> efficiant than Python.  It's a shame that the latter is more popular
> than the former.

There are actual reasons for that popularity — part of which is awesome
API uniformity throughout most of Python, another is that most people
avoid Python for performance-relevant parts and instead hand over to
C-extensions. And thanks to being so widely used most of its libraries
already had most of their bugs ironed out.

You can do the same in Guile, and thanks to the flexibility of Scheme we
can graft better APIs if we’re careful to keep newcomers in mind.

We’re not yet at the same level, though.

Best wishes,
Arne
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