[gambit-list] Clojure to Gambit Scheme compiler

Álvaro Castro-Castilla alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 12:19:30 EDT 2012


I wonder whether (and how) they pretend to implement STM and multicore
support...



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 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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