speeding up Guile [was: Guix Mentor (paid) — including "speed up Guix"]

[Matt Wette]

    On 12/27/23 8:17 AM, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

> Hafeez Bana <hafeez.bana@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The kind of advice you would be giving is:
> >       
> …
> > Alternatively, if there are sysadmin shops that are interested in doing
> > this work - please contact me.
> >
> > 🩷 Guix.
> >       
> Out of interest: Did you already receive applications for this?
>
> If not: ping to all who may have missed your email ☺
>
> Speeding up Guix partially means speeding up Guile — I know there are
> people here who are very interested in that.
>
>     
    
    FYI, I found that rlb's string update reduced guile compute time 20%
    for a big ffi-helper run.
    I wonder if that would help guix as well.   I'm not sure how easy it
    would be to test.
    
    ref:  https://codeberg.org/rlb/guile/src/branch/utf8
    
    Matt