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Re: Guile Startup Time Suggestion


> > No one rational is going to use guile if they need to run the "guile
> > daemon" at all times to get remotely good performance. We should just
> > fix the performance. It is certainly doable.
> 
> Along these lines, I have thought that a fruitful way of improving
> guile's startup performance would be to first build a basic guile, and
> then that guile could invoke the hobbit compiler to compile the guile
> init files.

Oy.  Honest, the startup code doesn't need to be nearly as slow as it
is.  There are major CPU sinks in Guile that simply need to be
removed, not compiled.  I mean, sure, we could feed the sheep
amphetamines, or just give in and buy some horses...