Re: [PATCH] build: pull: Compile .scm files in one process.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes:
>
>> It would be great if the whole circular import problem could somehow be
>> solved by Guile (no idea how feasible it is).
>
> I think we should eliminate circular module dependencies.  They cause
> nasty problems, and there's no compelling reason that we need them,
> since our package dependency graph is necessarily a DAG.

I think that this would mean having essentially one file per package,
which in turns would add a lot of I/O overhead.

More importantly, the problems we are facing here have nothing to do
with circular dependencies.  The main issue remains
<http://bugs.gnu.org/15602>.

The next issue would be multi-threaded compilation, which I think may be
fragile due to unsynchronized accesses to module objects and obarrays,
as discussed in this thread.

WDYT?

I would be happy to see more eyeballs looking into it!  :-)

Ludo’.