Re: Guile startup

[Chris Bitmead <chris.bitmead@bigfoot.com>]

Guile is slow to start up. There are things that can, will and should be
done to speed it up a lot, but they havn't been done yet and they're not
easy (or they would have been done already.).

On my computer it takes .62 secs to start up guile. Can you tell us any
more about what your program does so we can offer suggestions?

Jonas Oberg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been doing some testing with Guile by means of trial and error.
> I think this is a FAQ (though it wasn't listed in the FAQ as far as
> I can tell), so please feel free to flame me.
> 
> The program I have is basically (when you strip away the autoconf, automake,
> bison and flex magic);
> 
> static void inner_main (void *closure, int argc, char **argv)
> {
>         gh_eval_str("(display \"foo\")");
> }
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>         scm_boot_guile(argc, argv, inner_main, 0);
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> So, this is all nice and stuff, but scm_boot_guile() seems to take
> some 2-3 seconds on my computer which isn't very nice at all.
> I know there's probably some scheme-parsing involved in booting the
> guile interpreter, but are there some ways one can speed up the process?
> 
> Jonas

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