GNU Guile 3.0 Released With JIT Code Generation For Up To 4x Better Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Guile 3.0 Released With JIT Code Generation For Up To 4x Better Performance

GNU Guile 3.0 has been released, the GNU's implementation of the Scheme programming language with various extra features. The big news with Guile 3.0 is better performance...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Guile-3.0-Released

[cynical]

Nice! JITs are where its at.

[archsway]

Last time I checked, this was broken on armv7 for almost all distributions except Debian-based ones.

[madscientist159]

Shame to see yet another JIT only supporting closed ISAs. Wonder if there's any chance of a port to ppc64 and/or RISC-V?

[archsway]

Looks like it is still broken on ARM:

      3787 Illegal instruction     (core dumped) | GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/build-env guild snarf-check-and-output-texi > guile-procedures.texi

[log0]

Shame to see yet another JIT only supporting closed ISAs. Wonder if there's any chance of a port to ppc64 and/or RISC-V?

It looks like they are using a fork of GNU Lighting as JIT compiler, which supports ppc and riscv. So it is probably a mater of time/interest/hardware to get it working.

[c117152]

Not having to boilerplate with let/letrec is appreciated.