Re: Guile in Emacs

[christian.lynbech]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <address@hidden> writes:

Stephen> That's hardly a recommendation -- window managers are not very
Stephen> demanding of performance.

True, though one could argue that anything that sits between you and
your windows will be very visible if there is even the slightest lag.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that the performance issues of Guile is not
the most overwhelming problem we face (and I haven't touched Guile in
years so I do not actually know how it competes these days). 

I am certainly prepared to believe that Guile is faster than the current
Emacs Lisp engine but I am also absolutely convinced that unless it has
improved radically it will fall noticeably behind systems that compiles
to native code, whether directly or via C.


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