Re: Including code in a non-Guile language into Guix

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 17:15, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

>> by rewriting some of the
>> code in a more performance-oriented language like C?
>
> No.
>
> Guile is not the bottleneck.

For what it is worth, some months ago I gave a look to ’sort’.

The current implementation provided by Guile is written in C.  Guess
what?  I wrote some pure Guile as fast as such C (if not faster!).

https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2024-02-05-guile-sort/index.html

To make explicit my understanding of Ricardo’s answer: no it’s not the
Scheme compiler provided by Guile that is the current performance
bottleneck but there is still room of improvement for the whole Guile
(Garbage Collection, Standard Library, etc.).

Cheers,
simon