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Re: the viability of translators, and Guile itself
Christian Lynbech writes:
> I believe that the guile *interpreter* compares well to other scheme
> *interpreters* but does it hold when comparing interpreted guile to
> compiled rscheme or bigloo or whatever?
That's not a fair comparison.
>
> Having a fast interpreter is good enough for many things and most
> early project phases, but if one wants to write larger applications,
> with demnands on performance, one will also need to care about the
> maximum performance that can be achieved, following the traditional
> wisdom of the develop-debug-profile-optimize cycle.
That can be done by writing time-critical parts in C.
Klaus Schilling