[plt-scheme] Load times

Interesting.  I was already compiling things, but your way seems to
load about 30% faster then "mzc --extension --auto-dir" which I was
doing.

Corey

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> mzc -k your-main-file.ss
>
> You will see a dramatic difference in load time, as MzScheme can read
> bytecode MUCH faster than it can read and compile Scheme source.
>
> N.
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Corey Sweeney <corey.sweeney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been experiencing worse and worse load times, as I write more and
>> more libraries.  Many of my programs are supposed to run for a second,
>> then quit, so the load times are significant.  I've been running some
>> compilation and modularization expirments, and havn't had much luck.
>> If I understand correctly, compiling with "mzc" does not make a
>> "static" binary, so when the code is run, all the functions that in
>> the libraries that aren't used by the application are still loaded.
>>
>> Are there any recomendations for reducing load times?  Is there any
>> way to strip out unused functions?
>>
>> Corey
>



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