Re: guile startup speed and cvs distribution?

[Tim Pierce <twp@skepsis.com>]

> two questions:
> 
> 1) I imagine this has come before, but it seems to me that guile is
>    not very fast at starting up.  On my Sun Ultra 1 workstation
>    guile-971030 takes a good noticeable moment to prompt me, whereas
>    with scheme48 and scm the prompts come up almost immediately.  This
>    also slows down the startup of scwm.  On my little i486 Linux
>    notebook at home: it takes a good number of seconds for guile-1.2
>    to startup interactively, and scwm-0.5 takes ages. :-(

Yes, this has been discussed.  Some work to shave down and reorganize
Guile's startup code has already been done, and the ultimate plan is
to reorganize much of this code into modules that can be loaded
conveniently on demand.

With the code `freezer' (an unexec tool) that was mentioned in another
post, this should go a long way toward speeding up Guile's startup.

-- T.