On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 8:57 PM,
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Note that the 42 minutes here is a dumbed-down scheme interpreter
> written in C building/boostrapping the compiler. The guile compiler
> (the Scheme one) is quite a bit faster than that.
I know, but it's not necessary. Guile could take the scheme code which implements the efficient compiler, and just print out the C code (which JIT compiles the machine code) implementing that bytecode compiler. See the thunder.pdf I sent when I first proposed this idea: