Re: Proposal for a Guile binary file format

[Klaus Schilling <Klaus dot Schilling at munich dot netsurf dot de>]

Marius Vollmer writes:
 > Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:
 > >
 > > MzScheme is probably a good existence proof that Aubrey is wrong.
 > > MzScheme is faster than scm.  (But it is the only one!)
 > 
 > In what way is it faster?  Does it execute pre-compiled bytecodes
 > faster than SCM does its combined memoization and execution stuff?  Or
 > is it faster including bytecompil phase?  I'll go have a look myself.
 > 
 > > > I would pay the price of slower loading of uncompiled Scheme source
 > > > when we would instead have a good compiler that produces binary code
 > > > that can be loaded fast and executes fast.

Is it actually possible to compile procedures involving some form of
eval  efficiently? Stalin refuses to do that. And 'naos' needs eval or
local-eval a lot, at least until K.Wright shows me that it is not so.

Klaus Schilling