David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: > If Guile is not going to optimize ..., I think it would be good if it > led by example (its sources _are_ going to teach people how to program) > and simply avoided using ... altogether, at the very least where > recursive expansion rules are concerned. > > I have the suspicion, however, that there are a lot of tutorials/etc in > the wild that do make use of ellipses. So while avoiding ... will help > with keeping Guile's own internals scalable to large expressions, it > will still likely affect the performance of a significant amount of > third-party code.
By the way: module/system/vm/assembler.scm is taking an absolutely insane amount of time to compile. It also makes copious use of syntax rules including ... and this might be related. -- David Kastrup
