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Re: Guile Startup Time Suggestion

Russell McManus <mcmanus@IDT.NET> writes:
> 
> I guess my point was that it might be easier to deal with cpmpilation
> to C, rather than unexec, from a portability point of view.  I don't
> doubt that it's possible to do what you say, just that it's difficult
> to get it working on all platforms.

True enough, unexec is not easily ported, and compilation to C is a
worthy goal.  But unexec is nice to have on those platforms where it
works, and extending unexec to produce shared libraries could benefit
many other applications besides Guile.

-John