Roland Orre <[email protected]> skribis: > Another huge difference between guile-1.8.8 versus guile-2.0.9 is the > startup time, which makes guile-2.0.9 not at all suitable for shell > scripting > where guile-1.8.8 starts extremely fast.
On my machine startup times are comparable (~20ms). What did you measure? Then again this is dependent on the number of elements on $GUILE_LOAD_PATH and $GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH: more elements means more stat(2) calls. Ludo’.
