Re: Use scheme || nothing

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From: Robert Sanders
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 02:17

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In article <398vo8$ari@csnews.cs.Colorado.EDU>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:

>Translating ksh93, perl5, or python into scheme will only slow them
>down.  Why ever would you want to do this?

Why do you think that?  Almost every Scheme interpreter I've tried outruns
python, ksh, and perl on simple benchmarks like arithmetic and function 
calling. 

Perhaps you mean translating on the fly?  In that case, it seems like perl
has found that run-time `compilation' is worth the cost.  Anyway, I find
that slow programs during development aren't a big problem.  If the run-time
translation is slow, then when I'm done with my extension I can just compile
it into the `native' form.  It works well enough with Emacs & byte-compilation.

  -- Robert

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