[Chicken-users] Re: [gambit-list] Help With Memory

On 26-Sep-08, at 10:41 AM, Alex Shinn wrote: Hi, Marc Feeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point I am trying to make is that in a Scheme to C compiler continuations can be implemented in other ways than Cheney on the MTA to get a system with good performance for call/cc. Whether one

[Chicken-users] Re: [gambit-list] Help With Memory

On 26-Sep-08, at 11:29 AM, Bradley Lucier wrote: On Sep 26, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Marc Feeley wrote: Another point I want to make is that Cheney on the MTA give you free call/cc only after paying a premium on other things, namely stack-like behaving function calls and tail-calls. Because

[Chicken-users] Re: [gambit-list] Help With Memory

On 26-Sep-08, at 11:45 AM, Alex Shinn wrote: [I trimmed off the chicken-users list because I'm not interested in a pissing match between implementations :)] Marc Feeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are comparing Chicken to Chicken using different modes right? Nope, Chicken to Gambit

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: [gambit-list] Help With Memory

and Chicken as systems. If that was the case I would have much more to say and obviously would conclude that Gambit is better ;-) Marc On 27-Sep-08, at 9:03 AM, felix winkelmann wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Marc Feeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The conclusion from my benchmarks

[Chicken-users] Scheme workshop survey

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[Chicken-users] Scheme workshop survey deadline changed to november 2

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Re: [Chicken-users] faster threading

On 31-Oct-08, at 10:11 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: Thankful for a suggestion from Marc Feeley I reused rbtree.scm from the snowfort repository. The attached version extends the snow version by optionally generating lookup and fold procedures for the generated trees. (And contains some

Re: [Chicken-users] faster threading

On 2-Nov-08, at 6:50 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: Yes, that seems to be the best course of action, unless Marc consents to re-release his code under a BSD license for inclusion in Chicken. If we ask nicely, he might very well do! I hope so! Marc, would you please do! In exchange I

[Chicken-users] Fwd: [r6rs-discuss] [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] Final reminder: Scheme Steering Committee registration ends early Monday morning

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[Chicken-users] [ANN] Scheme Language Steering Committee

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[Chicken-users] [ANN] Call for Papers for 2010 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming

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[Chicken-users] R7RS public comment period

The comment period is now open and will continue until June 30, 2012. The steering committee thanks the editors for their intensive work on the draft R7RS, and looks forward to the public comment period on this sixth draft. Enjoy! For the Scheme language Steering Committee, -- Marc Feeley

[Chicken-users] [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] R7RS public comment period

The comment period is now open and will continue until June 30, 2012. The steering committee thanks the editors for their intensive work on the draft R7RS, and looks forward to the public comment period on this sixth draft. Enjoy! For the Scheme language Steering Committee, -- Marc Feeley

[Chicken-users] [Scheme Steering Committee announcements] R7RS public comment period

The comment period is now open and will continue until June 30, 2012. The steering committee thanks the editors for their intensive work on the draft R7RS, and looks forward to the public comment period on this sixth draft. Enjoy! For the Scheme language Steering Committee, -- Marc Feeley

[Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

I have been experimenting with the Spock Scheme to JavaScript compiler. I encountered a bug in its implementation of the Cheney on the MTA approach to tail-calls and continuations. The bug also exists for Chicken. In the Cheney on the MTA approach there needs to be a check, at regular

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

On 2012-07-11, at 2:31 PM, John Cowan wrote: Marc Feeley scripsit: In this example, there will be an arbitrarily long sequence of C calls (in the unwinding of the recursion to even) with no Scheme call, so stack size checks will not be performed during the unwinding, yet the C stack grows

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

On 2012-07-11, at 3:44 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote: It seems that compiling with clang (llvm 3.0) prevents the crash, at least for values up to 20 million, on OS X and Linux. Any higher and I start to hit swap. I don't know why this works. Plain gcc on linux, and llvm-gcc (llvm 2.7) on OS X

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

On 2012-07-11, at 2:31 PM, John Cowan wrote: Marc Feeley scripsit: In this example, there will be an arbitrarily long sequence of C calls (in the unwinding of the recursion to even) with no Scheme call, so stack size checks will not be performed during the unwinding, yet the C stack grows

Re: [Chicken-users] Unbounded stack growth

On 2012-07-11, at 5:59 PM, Felix wrote: Performance should not trump safety and correctness. Absolutely right, yet everybody has a different perception of what performance, safety and correctness means. Segfaulting on _stack-overflow_ is not something that I'd call incorrect or unsafe -

Re: [Chicken-users] spock tests

On 2012-09-08, at 8:28 AM, Felix fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org wrote: Hey, folks! Many, many thanks for testing so pervasively. This is indeed good news, as it shows that the stuff generally works. As you all reported, some test-cases fail, but this is known and caused by minor

Re: [Chicken-users] spock tests

On 2012-09-08, at 4:54 PM, Felix fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org wrote: In my experiments (updated since we last talked to the most current version of Chrome, Firefox and Safari) I have found that the performance of Spock (and Scheme2JS) varies a lot between JavaScript VMs. For

Re: [Chicken-users] ANN: new eggs "llrb-syntax" and "llrb-tree"

ote: > > Hi Marc, > > Am 25.10.2015 um 19:42 schrieb Marc Feeley: >> Interesting… it looks a lot like the define-rbtree macro used in the Gambit >> runtime system to implement priority queues for the scalable thread >> scheduler. >> >> Is there any hist

Re: [Chicken-users] ANN: new eggs "llrb-syntax" and "llrb-tree"

Interesting… it looks a lot like the define-rbtree macro used in the Gambit runtime system to implement priority queues for the scalable thread scheduler. Is there any historical link between your implementation and the Gambit one? Marc > On Oct 24, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Jörg F. Wittenberger >

Re: [Chicken-users] reachable top-level functions and variables

Have you tried the declaration (optimize-dead-definitions) in Gambit? There’s also the -report compiler option. Marc > On Jul 12, 2017, at 1:56 PM, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > > Hi all. > > I am looking for a compiler option that will produce output > that could give me a

Re: [Chicken-users] pp and write ignore keyword-style

> On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:05 AM, John Cowan wrote: > > Each of the :foo and foo: styles are supported by most of the 9, whereas the > SRFI-88 style was supported by only 4. See > https://bitbucket.org/cowan/r7rs-wg1-infra/src/default/KeywordSyntax.md for > details > For your information,

Re: RAM usage of applications?

Marc > On Nov 30, 2019, at 10:27 AM, John Cowan wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 10:12 AM Marc Feeley wrote: > > Interesting. I assume the 12K excludes dependent DLLs. Do you know if on > Windows there’s a DLL for the Chicken runtime library and for the C libr

Re: RAM usage of applications?

> On Nov 30, 2019, at 10:55 AM, Lassi Kortela wrote: > >>> The Chicken DLL is about 3.4MB, of which a good deal will be relocation >>> tables and such. I'm a Cygwin user, so my C library is included in >>> cygwin1.dll, which is about the same size [...] The native Windows C >>> library,

Re: RAM usage of applications?

> On Nov 30, 2019, at 10:07 AM, John Cowan wrote: > > The Scheme program (print "Hello world") compiled on Windows and stripped > produces a 12K executable. Chicken, like many other Schemes but Common Lisp, > is modularized: if you don't use a feature (within reason) it is not > included.

Re: Trying to understand chicken limitations

> On Dec 24, 2019, at 12:26 PM, cesar mena wrote: > > Marc Feeley writes: > >> Marc >> >> >> >>> On Dec 24, 2019, at 10:15 AM, cesar mena wrote: >>> >>> Lassi Kortela writes: >>> >>>>> As for S7,

Re: Trying to understand chicken limitations

> On Dec 23, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Lassi Kortela wrote: > > There's a persistent myth among programmers that interpreters are slow. I disagree that this is a myth. Interpreted code is typically anywhere from 5x to 100x slower than compiled code depending on the features of the interpreter and

Re: Trying to understand chicken limitations

Marc > On Dec 24, 2019, at 10:15 AM, cesar mena wrote: > > Lassi Kortela writes: > >>> As for S7, I would use Chibi instead: it's more modern and probably faster. >> >> It's a little-known fact that S7's author, Bill Schottstaedt still >> actively maintains it

Re: Hard coded paths in csc and relocatable chicken

> On May 21, 2021, at 8:58 AM, Théo Cavignac wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > I have been interested in this problem for other reasons, mainly because I > was interested in the possibility of installing eggs in userspace while > Chicken was installed through distro package manager (thus in root). >

Re: What are the long-term goals for R7RS in Chicken?

> On Jul 18, 2021, at 2:19 PM, Lassi Kortela wrote: > >> Note that include-files and loaded libraries are two different things, >> also in CHICKEN, libraries are usually compiled, so the .sld convention >> is only partially useful. > > The convention (observed at least by Chibi, Gambit, and

Re: compile-time deserialization

> On Dec 26, 2023, at 3:07 PM, Al wrote: > > Hi, suppose I need to reference data from "file.txt" in my Scheme program. I > could use read-char / read / open-input-file etc (or other (chicken io) > procedures) to read the the contents of the file into a variable. > > However, such