In article <qijwx4j2fum.fsf@lambda.ai.mit.edu>,
Olin Shivers <shivers@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <HJSTEIN.96Mar11152948@blinky.cpaf.com> hjstein@blinky.cpaf.com
>(Harvey J. Stein) writes:
[ stuff dd'd ]
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>Well, the guys at NEC are developing a native-code compiler. I was up at
>at Princeton on Thursday, and they keep assuring me it's coming along
>real fine... I'm sure your children will live to see the day.
Perhaps not my first born, but hopefully her children will...
>
>Other Schemes? I can think of two Texan ones that would make fine substrates.
>Chez and guile are also options. But I'm not going to do it -- I'd rather
>put the time in on designing and implementing multi-thread support, signal
>handlers, porting scsh to the next release of Scheme 48 (0.41, now in beta).
>So it would have to be someone else.
> -Olin
I'm seriously contemplating porting scsh to mzscheme (the Scheme implementation
from the PLT group at Rice)...I've talked a bit with Shriram about this and
have done some preliminary poking. While I'm not exactly thrilled over the
idea of reimplementing scsh, it seems my only option if I want to get decent
performance (as well as a system that will run on an Alpha). Does anyone
(including Olin & Brian) have any tips for this? Would it be more
realistic to build my own implementation of PreScheme that is portable than
it would be to add scsh to mzscheme?
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