---- "Ludovic Courtès" <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi! > > <dsm...@roadrunner.com> skribis: > > > ---- Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent > >> compiling Scheme code, rather than C code. > >> > >> One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster > >> if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it could skip the > >> portion of compile-time where the interpreter is running the compiler. > > > > This is what the GUILE_FOR_BUILD env var is for. > > It’s actually only used when cross-compiling. > > Ludo’.
Ahh. That explains why I've never seen much speed improvement when using it. ;^) Thanks. -Dale