Re: Blockers for Guile 2.2

[David Kastrup]

Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development
<lilypond-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, dem 24.02.2022 um 09:13 +0100 schrieb Luca Fascione:
>> Last thought: as I am currently learning Scheme and Guile, and I
>> noticed 3.0.x has been out for a couple years now and seems to be
>> benchmarking with speeds comparable to the 1.8.x line (according to
>> their release notes).
>
> It's important to differentiate between their benchmarks and the real-
> world impact on a complex project like LilyPond. There have been
> preliminary tests and they indicate that it's still a lot slower than
> Guile 1.8 without bytecode. Whether it will be faster than Guile 2.2
> for our use-cases afterwards, I don't know.

I seem to remember that 3.0 vs 2.2 is not all that much of a difference:
the large jump was 2.0 to 2.2 due to a different byte code machine.

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David Kastrup