[gambit-list] Clojure to Gambit Scheme compiler

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Mar 13 12:07:44 EDT 2012


Gasp!  After a bit of research it appears that someone has forked the ClojureScript compiler to build a compiler from Clojure to Gambit Scheme:

https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme

Apparently the resulting executable programs runs significantly faster than when using the JVM.  One of the performance problems with Clojure (on JVM) is the program startup time (typically above 1 second).  This is eliminated when using Gambit which takes a few milliseconds to startup.  On Mac OS X:

% time gsi -e "(exit)"

real    0m0.012s
user    0m0.006s
sys     0m0.005s

Marc




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