Re: Autocompilation/LilyPond

2012-03-10 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi David, Mark, I am still around, I've not had much time for hacking lately as I've been getting sick again, and the meds tend to sap the higher brain functions. On 09/03/12 19:27, David Kastrup wrote: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> David Kastrup writes: >> In the long run, I think this i

Re: Autocompilation/LilyPond

2012-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Ian Hulin writes: > Hi David, Mark, > I am still around, I've not had much time for hacking lately as I've > been getting sick again, and the meds tend to sap the higher brain > functions. I'll be taking a closer look in several days (my schedule does not really permit me doing much before the e

Re: My Guile TODO list

2012-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> Mark H Weaver skribis: [...] >>> * FFI overhaul >>>* Native code generation where possible, else generated C code >> >> For ‘pointer->procedure’, we could use GNU lightning to generate subrs, >> which would save us fro

Re: Autocompilation/LilyPond

2012-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi David, Sorry for the late reply. David Kastrup skribis: > Previous attempts have mostly exploded around the problem that we have > something like > > (for-each ly:load init-scheme-files) > > in our lily.scm file, and the auto-compiler attempts to compile all of > those files independently as

Re: My Guile TODO list

2012-03-10 Thread Ian Price
Hi mark, A lot of the stuff is pretty neat. I'm particularly interested in changes regarding immutability, being a functional programming nut :) I also greatly appreciate the work you have already done in improving guile's numerics. Like most people, I'll just pick a few to comment on Mark H We

Re: [PATCH] Efficient Gensym Hack

2012-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Just a few questions. Mark H Weaver skribis: > Here's an implementation of the efficient gensym hack for stable-2.0. > It makes 'gensym' about 4.7 times faster on my Yeeloong. Gensyms are > not given names or even numbers until they are asked for their names or > hash values (for 'equ

Re: Autocompilation/LilyPond

2012-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi David, > > Sorry for the late reply. > > David Kastrup skribis: > >> Previous attempts have mostly exploded around the problem that we have >> something like >> >> (for-each ly:load init-scheme-files) >> >> in our lily.scm file, and the auto-compiler at