Re: [Chicken-users] benchmarks

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> There were a few comparisons. I even had some graphical tables, but keeping
> the information up-to-date was getting tedious. The code generated by
> Chicken
> is in most cases a good deal faster than all byte-code interpreter based
> implementations, depending on optimizations. Compared with other Scheme->C
> compilers, Chicken and PLTs mzc are roughly in the same ballpark. Chicken
> appears to be faster than Gambit on floating-point heavy code.
> Once you start using first-class continuations heavily or are doing
> allocation-
> intensive stuff, Chicken can also keep up with Bigloo and other
> high-performance
> implementations.
> Note that libraries (like string-processing) are not so dependent on the
> compiler.
> For example, Chicken's string-processing code is not particularly fast,
> since
> it's written in Scheme and hasn't been tuned that much.
>

In principle it should be possible to use the PCRE library from Chicken (it is 
a good
C library for Perl-style regular expressions); unfortunately I have no 
experience in
wrapping C libraries from Chicken. I am studying the manual, though.

             Michele