The Aims of Developing Hobbit (hobbit)

Producing maximally fast C code from simple scheme code.
By simple we mean code which does not rely on procedures returning procedures (closures) and nontrivial forms of higher-order procedures. All the latter are also compiled, but the optimizations specially target simple code fragments. Hobbit performs global optimization in order to locate such fragments.
Producing C code which would preserve as much original scheme code structure as possible, to enable using the output C code by a human programmer (eg. for introducing special optimizations possible in C). Also, this will hopefully help the C compiler to find better optimizations.