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Re: Startup time in guile-1.3 (II)

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

> I actually got angry when I saw this change.  It's completely insane
> to do that much work for every character being read in the innermost
> loop of the reader.
> 
> Doesn't people have any feeling for what is time critical and what is
> not?

I hope people realize that this was said in agitation and that my
confidence in Jim's competence is as solid as rock.

(Next time someone dares to make GUile slower, I'll post to
 comp.lang.scheme as well!  ;-)

/mdj