Re: Using Guile for soft-realtime

[jbranso]

Awesome!  Well done chap!  Jolly good sport!

January 24, 2021 11:25 AM, "Olivier Dion" <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> 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!
> 
> --
> Olivier Dion
> PolyMtl