Re: Latest guile 1.9 segfault in GC

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Cedric,

On Tue 17 Aug 2010 07:08, Cedric Cellier <address@hidden> writes:

> As a side note, I find libguile 1.9 slower than libguile 1.8.7.
> I suppose, being an unstable version, it's compiled by default
> with many debug options on. Is there an easy way to configure it
> for fast execution, for benchmarking reason ?

Guile 1.9's interpreter is slower than 1.8's interpreter, but 1.9 has a
compiler, and compiled Scheme runs much faster than 1.8.

You're probably not hitting the compiler for some reason. I think that
scm_primitive_load doesn't support autocompilation, where it probably
should. Is that the function you're using to load your Scheme code?

To work around it for now, call `load' from scheme. I know it's ugly but
at least you get the speed that way. Use scm_primitive_eval (scm_list_2
(scm_from_locale_string ("load"), path)).

Andy
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