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Re: Performance, argh
Lalo Martins <lalo@webcom.com> writes:
> 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.
Unless this a really new thing, Perl doesn't do it; it just translates
really quickly. (You're right for Python, though, and the approach
certainly would transfer to the guile world).
Greg