On 2011-04-01, at 2:15 PM, Steve Graham wrote:

I compiled the sample program from the Win 7 command prompt and it took 40+ seconds.

I double checked to make sure, and it takes 1 second on my MBP (running Windows). See the details below. If it takes 40 seconds for you, there is definitely something wrong with your setup, unless your computer is very old!

I used the latest Gambit (v4.6.1) installed using the installer downloaded from the Gambit web page.

Marc

$ time gsc -exe windows-gui-example.scm

real 0m1.078s user 0m0.031s sys 0m0.000s

$ gsc -v v4.6.1 20110325124526 i686-pc-mingw32 "./configure --prefix=C:/Gambit-C/././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././. --enable-multiple-versions --enable-symlinks --enable-single-host"

$ gcc -v Reading specs from c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.5-20060117-3/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boehm --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchronization --enable-libstdcxx-debug Thread model: win32 gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)