[plt-scheme] efficiency

Adrian Kubala <kubalaa at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Yes, I suppose PTLs philosophy is more like that of a scripting
> language, where I was imagining something more self-contained.

I don't know what their philosphy is.  Maybe one will tell us.

> Actually I guess I wasn't, because I just assumed this was done
> automatically for the library files.

If they exist, it uses them.

> I changed from (lib "pregexp.so") to (lib "pregexp.zo") and didn't get any
> significant improvement, a second or less.

Maybe this involves one less stat() per module.  It shouldn't make much
difference.