Re: prescheme performance

Raoul Duke <[email protected]> writes:

>> What kind of benchmarks are you looking for?  The original PreScheme
>> paper has some:
>
> thanks!
>
> I'm looking to learn how well it performs for e.g.:
>
> 1) writing simple apps/games directly in prescheme (i have to learn if
> there's any ffi available).

By nature, it's usually on par with C, often faster.

> 2) using it as a target for Shen Lisp.

PreScheme itself is probably not the target you're looking for, but the
internal CPS representation is very good as a compiler target.

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Regards,
Mike