> Some recent change has increased loading time in guile-1.3 a lot. > > I just compared Guile startup time on my Sparc Ultra between a > snapshot from 970718 and the 1.3 release: > > 970718 1.48 s > 1.3 4.68 s > > That is, 1.3 is three times slower! I thought so too, but I wasn't sure what was up. Hmm.