Re: A big hole where the evaluator used to be...

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks! I finally had time to write up some of this here:
>
>    
> http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/12/09/in-which-our-protagonist-forgoes-modesty

Nice.  But I didn't understand where you said that all the unit tests go
through the evaluator.  Apart from those that use eval explicitly, don't
they all just get compiled and VM'd?

> Another side of this is compile-time speed; psyntax-pp.scm takes forever
> to compile now, like 4 or 8 minutes.

And much longer than that (~30 mins?) on my ancient P3 laptop!  (But
it's still worth it!)

Regards,
        Neil