From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] guile: Compile and install Scheme files.
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tthh4uf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53C4F7A7.9070003@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:43:03 +0100")
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> skribis:
> Can we have a a comment somewhere (either in the sources, or in
> the commit log), of _why_ we do this? E.g., is this for
> performance, or for something else? When it is safe? Etc.
Agreed, we’ll add a comment for that.
Basically, Guile automatically compiles source files when it cannot find
a pre-compiled file, but it’s just more convenient for the user if
compiled files are installed in the first place.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-19 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-20 21:35 Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-12 12:37 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-15 9:53 ` Pedro Alves
2014-07-19 14:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-07-19 15:26 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-19 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-19 17:11 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-19 21:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-19 17:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
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