ram...@amy ~/Desktop % time sudo ikarus --compile-dependencies gears.scm
Password:
Serializing "/usr/lib/ikarus/glut.ss.ikarus-fasl" ...
Serializing "/usr/lib/ikarus/gl.ss.ikarus-fasl" ...
Serializing "./ypsilon-compat.ikarus.ss.ikarus-fasl" ...
sudo ikarus --compile-dependencies gears.scm  40.10s user 0.31s system
84% cpu 47.692 total

startup after that is much faster, although not instantaneous

I did it as root because I can't write to /usr/lib/ikarus...
also, the compat library was in . because it had the traces in. I'm
trying it with the normal ypsilon-compat - still takes 40 seconds or
so.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 20, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Ramana Kumar wrote:
>
>> It seems to take about 1 or 2 minutes to compile or expand (or
>> whatever it's doing to) glut-demo.scm. but then it works and I get the
>> rotating shapes! I just wasn't waiting long enough before - I don't
>> think it should take this long though...
>>
>> same with gears.scm. once gears is running it reports ~18 fps.
>
> This is bizarre.  On my machine, it takes less than 4 seconds to
> expand/compile all these libraries.  It should never take as long
> as you're saying.
>
> $ time ikarus --compile-dependencies gears.scm
> Serializing "/Users/ikarus/Work/ikarus/lib/glut.ss.ikarus-fasl" ...
> Serializing "/Users/ikarus/Work/ikarus/lib/gl.ss.ikarus-fasl" ...
> Serializing
> "/Users/ikarus/Work/ikarus/lib/ypsilon-compat.ikarus.ss.ikarus-fasl" ...
>
> real    0m3.893s
> user    0m3.739s
> sys     0m0.149s
>
> If the libraries are precompiled, startup is instantaneous.
>
> Anybody else sees such long compile times or has an idea what
> might be causing it?
>
> Aziz,,,
>

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