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Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime
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Olivier Dion |
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Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime |
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Sun, 24 Jan 2021 11:25:45 -0500 |
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.
>
> 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 would say to try to build your program in guile and post
> back here.
Well the software in question is a video game engine. But I managed to
integrate Guile into the engine, deactivating the Guile context in
critical section of C code. Work like a charm!
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Olivier Dion
PolyMtl