Re: benchmark

[Olin Shivers <shivers@clark.lcs.mit.edu>]

Good question. It might be because bignum arithmetic in Scheme 48 is
implemented in Scheme. Both elk and scm do it in C. For this kind of thing,
I'd imagine *big* slowdown in moving to byte-codes. However, I'm no expert;
that is really a Scheme 48 question. Try the Scheme 48 mailing list.
    -Olin