Re: Test reader speed of Guile 3.0.6

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 8:23 AM Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
<arne_bab@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> there’s a Guile 3.0.6 release planned that includes a rewrite of the
> reader in Scheme. It has speed in the same order of magnitude as the
> previous reader but might have different performance characteristics.
>
> If I remember correctly, lilypond uses the reader a lot, so if you have
> a test-system with lilypond on Guile 3, could you test how running
> lilypond with the current Guile master from git affects lilypond?

last time I looked, building GUILE 3 from source was truly glacial,
making this kind of thing annoying to check.

You say "same order of magnitude". Do you have benchmarks so we know
what to expect?

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