Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS

[Klaus Schilling]

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