Re: State of LilyPond with Guile 2.2

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Sonntag, dem 11.04.2021 um 16:17 +0200 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > I'd like to give an update on the status of Guile 2.2, including
> > some benchmark numbers.  See the end for my conclusions, but I'd
> > welcome comments on your take.
> 
> Thanks for doing the comparison.
> 
> This has certainly be mentioned somewhere, but what exactly is the
> advantage for LilyPond of using Guile 2.x or 3.x?

That LilyPond compiles again out-of-the-box (or continues to compile
for distributions that didn't drop Guile 1.8 yet).
And we get 64 bit executables on Windows, which is impossible with
Guile 1.8. And in the process, hopefully get 64 bit executables for
macOS and maybe even M1.

> Your numbers look
> as if staying with 1.8 would be the right thing currently, and we
> should probably start to ponder how to integrate the Guile 1.8 bundle
> into the LilyPond distribution...

From a software engineering and maintenance view, this is a very very
bad idea.

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