Re: guile-vm 0.4

[Keisuke Nishida]

At 13 Apr 2001 10:15:08 +0100,
Neil Jerram wrote:
> 
>     Keisuke> Just loading it without `compile-file' would mean
>     Keisuke> compiling it on memory without writing.  Without
>     Keisuke> compilation, my VM cannot execute it.
> 
> Now I'm confused.  Earlier you said that, if your VM found the
> expression (load "foo.scm") somewhere in the module that it was
> compiling, it would simply invoke `load' as a procedure, and then
> `load' would do its own non-VM thing.

Sorry, I meant that `load' *could* compile the source file
some time in the future.  We could redefine `load' so that
it always compiles files.  Right now, I haven't redefined
`load' but done `require'; that's why only `require' compiles
files.

I don't think the current behavior is the right way.  If we
are going to replace the current evaluator by a VM, we need
to compile every file.

Regards,
Keisuke