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Performance, argh


Sigh... I really prefer to talk about and work on translators,
but I had these "dois centavos" (2c) I felt I had to sent.

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 08:48:47AM -0700, Greg Badros wrote:
> 
> Incidentally, I don't think just reducing the amount of code to load
> initially will help Scwm's startup time... we, like other applications
> that choose to use Guile, have lots of application-specific guile code
> that needs to be loaded at startup.  I think faster reading of the code, 
> or alternative means of loading standard modules (dumping, or
> pre-compiling code and linking in .so files) is a more useful way to
> attack this specific problem of slow startup time.

IMVHO, Perl and Python have small startup times due to
"semicompiled" (or byte-compiled or whatever each language calls
them) modules. Perhaps coming up with a ".gscmc" format is all
we need to get this particular ghost past us.

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