Re: [Chicken-users] benchmarks from the Gambit world

[felix winkelmann]

On 8/30/06, Dan <address@hidden> wrote:
> So, in other words, Felix tried the benchmarks pointed
> to by Sven and found Chicken to be lacking... :) ?

No, not at all. Chicken's performance is just fine. I just
refuse to burn time and energy for things that are not
broken, or things that will never be quite satisfactory for
everybody, regardless how one tries.

> For performance and numerical simulations, I found
> pure Chicken unsatisfactory. Mixing in some C made it
> better, but that quickly becomes limiting. Another
> good option (for me) was to use OCAML with a Scheme
> interpreter on top (OCS).

That's quite correct. Put metaprogramming facilities (a bit
like the stuff Will does) is IMHO the way to go.


cheers,
felix


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