Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-hosted stalin

[Alex Shinn]

On Jan 23, 2008 9:09 AM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> felix winkelmann scripsit:
>
> > Compilation of Scheme with Stalin takes extremely long. The chicken-compiled
> > Stallin is smaller and doesn't stress gcc so much, but is (naturally)
> > even slower than the original Stalin, which means slow compiling Scheme to 
> > C.
>
> Well, that's what I expected.  But then what is the meaning of saying that 
> there
> are faster turnaround times for chicken-stalin than for native stalin?

I think the relevant point is that there are faster turnaround
times for hacking Stalin itself.  This is very important, because
Stalin is minimal to the point of being unusable, and so a lot of
hacking is needed.

-- 
Alex