Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.ca writes:
[...] (on my computer that's about 3 times slower than /bin/sh, but still twice as fast as Scheme48 (which also has a 3 MB footprint) and about 30 times faster than mzscheme). [...]
If you run mzscheme just like that (eg, mzscheme -e "(exit)") then you're loading stuff that is useful only for an interactive REPL. On my machine, this takes 169ms. But if you run it with
mzscheme -I scheme/base -e '(exit)'
then it goes down by a factor of 10 to 17ms.