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Re: performance

Andres Heinloo <lka@physic.ut.ee> writes:

> I was told in private mail that Guile 1.3 has a bug in the reader that
> causes the poor performance.

I don't understand---in what way is the reader involved here?

Do you say that Guile startup time was included in the experiment?

That could explain it, since

1. Guile loads too much code at startup

2. It loads it slowly since the current module system runs a hierarchy
   of scheme function calls the first time *every* single variable in
   the code is encountered.  (Of course this is completely insane.)