Re: [Texmacs-dev] Disastrous boot time for new versions

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:37, address@hidden wrote:
> > > That is not a philosophical problem to me. But the more texmacs will
> > > use GUILE as a application language (instead of a mere extension
> > > language) the more it will make sense to use a more efficient
> > > implementation of Scheme.
> > 
> > Do you know of more efficient implementations,
> > which can also be used of extension languages?
> 
> I will look for that.
> 
> The problem is knowing what is the requirement for a scheme
> implementation to be used as an extension language.
> 
> I suppose that is:
> 
>   -- easy to bind to C
> 
>   -- the full language in available in runtime
> 
>   -- no need for an external compiler (I suppose you do not want
>      texmacs to depend on gcc :-)
> 
>   -- module system supporting namespaces

Perhaps rscheme is what you want?  http://www.rscheme.org/

apt-cache search rscheme
apt-get install rscheme

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