> two questions:
>
> 1) I imagine this has come before, but it seems to me that guile is
> not very fast at starting up. On my Sun Ultra 1 workstation
> guile-971030 takes a good noticeable moment to prompt me, whereas
> with scheme48 and scm the prompts come up almost immediately. This
> also slows down the startup of scwm. On my little i486 Linux
> notebook at home: it takes a good number of seconds for guile-1.2
> to startup interactively, and scwm-0.5 takes ages. :-(
Hobbit installs a compiled version of boot-9.scm, this helps a bit
with the startup time:
With original boot-9.scm:
time guile </dev/null
0.94s user 0.03s system 100% cpu 0.968 total
With compiled boot-9.scm:
time guile </dev/null
0.33s user 0.03s system 99% cpu 0.361 total
This was on an AMD K5 P133 running Linux
You can find Hobbit for Guile at
ftp.red-bean.com:/pub/guile/contrib/misc
-- Istvan