Re: What's so cool about Scheme?

[Bruce Lewis <address@hidden>]

Steve Dekorte <steve@dekorte.com> writes:

> On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 07:58 AM, Anton van Straaten wrote:
> > If Scheme is a scripting language, it's the fastest one on the
> > planet, by a
> > wide margin.
> 
> That's impressive. Are one or more of the languages tested here:
> http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
> a flavor of Scheme? xemacs, guile maybe?

If you scroll down to the bottom of that page, you'll see that bigloo,
stalin and guile are the Scheme implementations in the shootout.  Bigloo
and stalin compile to native code; guile does not.


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