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Jim Blandy writes: > "[Guile] is slow" has a lot to do with the GC it uses. The > documentation is more important, but improving the GC is still quite > important. scm, though, is fast. In turning scm into guile, we slowed it down a lot. I think that's a pretty obvious direction to be poking in before we touch gc. That is not to say that I would tell people not to work on gc, but only that I think we know what the problems are (startup time, etc.) and they aren't caused by gc... Perry