Re: (debug-enable 'debug) makes evaluator slow?

[Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>]

[Cleaning up some *very* old mail...]

> I observed guile executing code more slowly when debugging was
> enabled.  I vaguely recall stmts years ago on the guile mailing list
> that enabling debugging made loading slow but did *not* make execution
> any slower.  My question is whether or not this was supposed to be the
> case & it changed, or was it never the case.

Debugging always makes execution slower.

Perhaps you're confusing it with the module system, which only slows
down the first evaluation of a given expression.