Re: What's after guile-1.4? (was: Re: Questions... I am new to scheme)

[Jeff Read <bitwize@geocities.com>]

Russ McManus wrote:

> I would like to know more about what the guile team is planning for
> future releases.  So far, I know that the focus for guile-1.4 is up to
> date documentation.

I think the Guile team should pare it down a little. Make it a bit
smaller and a LOT faster (especially when it comes to startup, and
garbage collection). I was thinking, maybe you guys could borrow a few
ideas from Perl's or Siod's GC. After all that's done, you can then
attack the problems of bignum arithmetic and the numeric tower and that
stuff. I believe that if Guile is going to achieve its intended purpose
of being a ubiquitous, jack-of-all-trades embedded extensibility
language, we have to make it an attractive option for people who're
writing applications that could use such a language. A great way of
doing this is by improving performance in a few areas and keeping the
code size small.

Note that I really know nothing about hacking together a Scheme
implementation, and many of you guys will probably know a lot better
what to do about the GC problem, ice-9, etc. I'm kind of talking out my
you-know-where here but I really think that being an extensibility
library, addressing these issues is kind of a priority.

Oh, and why does it give me that IOT Trap error when I do read-line? Is
that a libc or egcs thing?

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