On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:58 -0500, Lam Luu wrote:

I am trying to write a web service in Scheme, so I wish to keep the code in source form (not compiled). I know that Gambit has an very good compiler, but I have not heard much about the interpreter (gsi). Does anyone have an idea how efficient it is, especially in comparison to the compiler as well as other interpreted languages like Perl, Python, and Ruby?

I use gsi to run a homework-on-the-web system for 900 students (so that includes some symbolic and arithmetic work behind the web server) on a 2.4GHz Opteron 850 (a 5+ year old machine) with no problems. The requests get pretty high in the last hour or two before homework is due.

Brad