Re: What's the current recommendation for speeding up bits of guile code.

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: Rob Browning <address@hidden>
> Date: 20 Mar 2001 15:58:49 -0600
> 
> Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > OK.  Thanks, I may play with that and see what happens.
> 
> Easier than I thought.  There was some automake, etc. bitrot, but
> after I got past that, hobbit seemed to build/install/work.  I also
> (at least temporarily) switched it from being an slib "provided"
> module to a normal guile (use-modules (ghobbit)) style module.
> 
> Should this go into CVS?

I am quite interested in that module.  What is currently possible with
it?  I suppose you can compile self-contained Scheme source files to
C.  Can you build shared objects, which can then be loaded
dynamically, just like hand-coded C modules?

I think this would be quite useful, even if there is no support for
the current module system, because we could code quite a lot of code
(such as the SRFIs) in Scheme, compile them to machine code and then
load them via Scheme modules.

Regards,
  'martin