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Re-using bootstrap in the half-strap
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Christopher Allan Webber |
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Re-using bootstrap in the half-strap |
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Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:30:31 -0500 |
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mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 25.1.1 |
Hello,
A thought this morning... one challenge with Guile's 2.1 branch is it
takes a lonnnng time to bootstrap. There are good reasons for this, and
Andy Wingo has documented them:
http://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile
However, I can't help but wonder if we could reuse the initial
bootstrapped compiler. What if we had an external package that
contained *just* the scheme interpreter used to bootstrap the rest of
the system? We might not need to separate the codebase, but have this
be a separate make output.
If you could package *just* the bootstrapped compiler, if a user doesn't
feel like waiting through the whole bootstrap process, they could use
the existing bootstrap package, like:
./configure --with-bootstrap=/path/to/guile-bootstrap
and maybe we could have a guile-bootstrap package in guix, etc. If you
want to do the whole bootstrap yourself in the Guile package, you could
do so, but it wouldn't be a requirement, assuming you had that separate
package...
Thoughts? Useful? Badly informed?
- Chris
- Re-using bootstrap in the half-strap,
Christopher Allan Webber <=