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Jens-Ulrik Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes: > two questions: > > 1) I imagine this has come before, but it seems to me that guile is > not very fast at starting up. On my Sun Ultra 1 workstation > guile-971030 takes a good noticeable moment to prompt me, whereas > with scheme48 and scm the prompts come up almost immediately. This > also slows down the startup of scwm. On my little i486 Linux > notebook at home: it takes a good number of seconds for guile-1.2 > to startup interactively, and scwm-0.5 takes ages. :-( Hobbit installs a compiled version of boot-9.scm, this helps a bit with the startup time: With original boot-9.scm: time guile </dev/null 0.94s user 0.03s system 100% cpu 0.968 total With compiled boot-9.scm: time guile </dev/null 0.33s user 0.03s system 99% cpu 0.361 total This was on an AMD K5 P133 running Linux You can find Hobbit for Guile at ftp.red-bean.com:/pub/guile/contrib/misc -- Istvan