Re: Performance tracking

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

<address@hidden> skribis:

> ---- Noah Lavine <address@hidden> wrote: 
>> It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent
>> compiling Scheme code, rather than C code.
>> 
>> One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster
>> if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the
>> portion of compile-time where the interpreter is running the compiler.
>
> This is what the GUILE_FOR_BUILD env var is for.

It’s actually only used when cross-compiling.

Ludo’.