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Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS
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Klaus Schilling |
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Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS |
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Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:53:38 +0100 (CET) |
From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:53:16 +0000
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> > I'm convinced that it's possible to write a Scheme interpreter much
> > faster than ours.
>
> It must be possible, because other implementations have done it.
No, guile is a hell of a fast interpreter.
Faster implementations either aren't interpreters
thus losing flexibility
or pretty sloppy concerning garbage collection stuff.
>
> It's difficult at this point to avoid a possibly unwelcome question:
> what makes Guile Guile,
the agenda Richard M. Stallman gave out a dozen of years ago
> and why wouldn't we be better off contributing
> our resources to an implementation that already is faster?
>
as said, their speed is achieved at a high cost
Klaus Schilling
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