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Re: plan for merging guile-vm docs into guile manual
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Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
Re: plan for merging guile-vm docs into guile manual |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:39:03 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Howdy,
On Thu 06 Nov 2008 17:19, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> <broken record>
> The reader interface is unusable as well.
> </broken record>
>
> I suppose it'd be easy to hack something in the Scheme translator,
> perhaps making it optional. Maybe I could look into it myself and
> report back.
Yes this would be a great thing :-)
>> At that point we can talk about the data representation used in Guile,
>> as coming from SCM and being one of the fastest hand-coded interpreters
>> out there.
>
> Fastest?!
Hm, will have to poke. I thought that most Schemes compiled expressions
entered at the repl -- i.e. they are faster, but that's because they're
compiling and not interpreting. But I could be wrong on that. I also
recall reading this somewhere. In any case, point taken ;)
> Part of [vm documentation] already exists in `guile-vm.texi'. Are you
> planning to somehow start from there or rewrite something?
Start from there, of course!
Cheers,
Andy
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