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@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ GMP, and so does Guile. Since Guile 2.0.4, Guile has installed libgc as the GMP allocator, so since then, Guile-GnuTLS has been buggy. Therefore, the default is now to not install libgc as the GMP allocator. -This may slow down some uses of bignums. +This may slow down some uses of bignums. If you know that your Guile +program will never use a library that uses GMP, you can set the +GUILE_INSTALL_GMP_MEMORY_FUNCTIONS=1 in your environment. Guile sets +this environment variable when building Guile, for example. See +"Environment Variables" in the manual, for more. In some future, Guile may switch to GMP's more low-level "MPN" API for working with bignums, which would allow us to regain the ability to use |