RE: scheme - my opinion

Reginald> A fast scheme engine. This is the tough one. Scheme48 is Reginald> currently a bit too slow for this. Of course clisp has a Reginald> lot of hand coded C/assembly so maybe making a better Reginald> prescheme compiler would do the trick. But this is not easy for the Common Lisps either. The "hand-coded" stuff in CLisp is specifically for a small number of platforms, and CMUCL is allegedly not usable at all[1], let alone efficient, on more than a couple of platforms. We want an engine that will be usable on all platforms we support, an efficiency improvement on most of them, and a big efficiency improvement on as many as possible. Footnotes: [1] Maybe the period should come here? ;-) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +1 (298) 53-5091