Am Montag, dem 12.04.2021 um 13:50 +0200 schrieb David Kastrup: > Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: > > > > > ... you were talking about advancing to Guile 2.x as the next step, > > > > and if I have understood your original e-mail correctly, this speed > > > > is only available with 3.x. > > > > > > Then please re-read the initial message *carefully*! > > > > I stand corrected. Somehow I got the impression that compiled Scheme > > code is a 3.x thing only. Obviously I'm getting old. > > Guile-1.8 already compiles Scheme code. Guile-2.0 has a virtual machine > and does byte compilation for that into separate files. Guile-2.2 has a > different virtual machine. I've not kept track of what happened since > then. There may have been experiments with JIT compilation and/or > machine code but I don't really know.
Yes, Guile 3.0 has a JIT (on x86 at least), see https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news/gnu-guile-300-released.html
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