Hallo,
Christian Jaeger wrote:
Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva wrote:
You would need every user to have a development toolchain(compiler, assembler, linker etc.) on every user machine.
That's a different issue. It's a question of trading a dependency on gcc (or another C compiler) for a dependency on llvm.
The code generator of LLVM is deployed as a library. It's a very different thing to deploy a library (linked statically or as shared objecyts) and deploying a complete development environment.
(And I guess most sizable Scheme/Gambit based projects need a C compiler anyway to compile bindings to C libraries; so it would only matter for a target audience which *does* program in Scheme but *only* uses precompiled binary modules for C bindings.)
Most Java/Python/Ruby/Lua etc. audience do not create their own FFI modules.
Cheers, -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/