@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
-@c Copyright (C) 2008,2009,2010
+@c Copyright (C) 2008,2009,2010,2011
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
The upside of implementing the interpreter in Scheme is that we preserve
tail calls and multiple-value handling between interpreted and compiled
-code. The downside is that the interpreter in Guile 2.0 is slower than
-the interpreter in 1.8. We hope the that the compiler's speed makes up
-for the loss!
+code. The downside is that the interpreter in Guile 2.@var{x} is slower
+than the interpreter in 1.8. We hope the that the compiler's speed makes
+up for the loss!
Also note that this decision to implement a bytecode compiler does not
preclude native compilation. We can compile from bytecode to native