On Jan 22, 2008 4:43 PM, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fair enough. I'm still not clear on whether it is actually slower or faster, > though, or perhaps slower in general but faster when compiling Stalin, or > what.
Stalin *can* (in the hands of someone experienced with it, and there are not many of those, and I'm not) generate very fast code. Fast as "competitive with C". The code generated by the original Stalin is (should) be identical to the code generated by the chicken-stalin, so there is no difference in the performance of the generated executables (stalin has it's own runtime system, and is a completely separate implementation). 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. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
