Hi, On Thu 26 Jan 2017 09:39, Rchar <rc...@protonmail.com> writes:
> I wanted to compare Guile scheme to other scheme implementations and I found > this:https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/benchmark.html > > Is Guile slow or fast, comparing to others? Besides what Mike said, there are two kinds of Schemes in that benchmark: the ones that compile to native machine code (ahead of time, either with their own compilers or by emitting C, or just-in-time), and the ones that run some kind of bytecode interpreter. Schemes that compile to native code go faster. Guile compiles to bytecode right now, so it's generally (though not always!) slower than the native-compiling schemes. But compared to the bytecode-interpreter schemes it's pretty fast. One day we'll have a native compiler and we can start playing benchmark games with the big kids :) Andy
