Re: guile-vm 0.3

[Keisuke Nishida]

At 03 Apr 2001 13:10:28 -0500,
Rob Browning wrote:
> 
> And I think there's also the possibility that a hybrid, combining JIT
> and byte-code might be a really interesting approach.  For some parts
> of your code, the memory compression of bytecoding might be a big win,
> and for the tightest inner loops, you might want Lightning.

That's interesting.  Probably we can do it in the long run.

> I wonder if you could hook up the system with a profiler so that
> during development guile could identify the critical sections and try
> each approach, eventually choosing the one that's fastest.  Then you
> might need a way to annotate your code so that when you load normally,
> guile will choose the right one by default.
> 
> Another interesting possibility would be a run-time profiler that
> compiled a cached subset of the most frequently called functions --
> this might be good for a guile webserver or database that computed in
> "phases".

Possible, but I think we shouldn't think about this sort of
optimization right now.

Kei