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Re: gh_enter reconsidered



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