Re: [ANN] CHICKEN 6.0.0 has been released

Congratulations! A long awaited release!


P.S in the Wiki there is a perfect page
https://wiki.call-cc.org/programming-for-performance#programming-for-performance
IMO there should be a couple words added about building faster C6 and
(generated native code) itself by the new ./configure way. "Optimization
flags, like -O2 -march=native or -ffast-math should be passed to the
./configure script in the environment variable CFLAGS:   $
CFLAGS="-march-native -O2 ... -ffast-math ./configure --prefix=...."
Thank You!

вт, 11 авг. 2026 г. в 11:43, Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-users <
[email protected]>:

> Dear CHICKEN users,
>
> We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CHICKEN 6.0.0
> at the following URL:
>
> https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/chicken-6.0.0.tar.gz
>
> This tarball has the following SHA256 checksum:
> 92835552b1b687ad26737e429b5aba36510bf429f8816ec0f6d336c8cb41f443
>
> This is major release, containing many improvements and enhancements,
> including full support for the R7RS (small) language standard and
> UNICODE strings. Support for Windows platforms has been improved
> and many smaller changes were done for better standards compliance
> and better compatibility to other Scheme implementations. Building
> the system from source is now a bit more ergonomic due to the use
> of a configure script (no new dependencies have been added - a C
> compiler, GNU make and a POSIX shell is all that is required).
>
> Many thanks to everyone who helped test this release.
>
> For a full list of the changes since 5.4.0 (which are quite
> considerable) see the NEWS file:
>
> https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS
>
>
> Kind regards,
> The CHICKEN Team
>
>
>