From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Implementors' intentions concerning R6RS
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:14:33 +0100
> Hi,
>
> Klaus Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't think so. Try out, for instance, Bigloo's *interpreter*.
The Bigloo Interpreter is crippled beyond acceptability:
Bigloo-Manual> Bigloo includes an interpreter. Unfortunately, the
Bigloo-Manual> language accepted by the interpreter is a proper
Bigloo-Manual> subset of that accepted by the compiler. The main
Bigloo-Manual> differences are: No foreign ob jects can be handled
Bigloo-Manual> by interpreter. Classes of the ob ject system
Bigloo-Manual> cannot be declared within interpreted code. The
Bigloo-Manual> interpreter ignores modules, and has a unique
Bigloo-Manual> global environment.
Klaus Schilling
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