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RE: [bootstrappable] Re: prototyping the full source bootstrap path


From: Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
Subject: RE: [bootstrappable] Re: prototyping the full source bootstrap path
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:42:50 +0000

> Jan is correct that Guile is still heavily tied to its C code.  It's true 
> that Guile's compiler is written in Scheme and that
>  the C evaluator is used only during bootstrapping, but the C bootstrap 
> evaluator is only a small piece of libguile. 
> The majority of libguile is still needed. Notably, the entire runtime, the 
> VM, and implementations of many data
> structures and other libraries are written in C.

Thank you for correcting my mistaken assumption.




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