[racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

At Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:35:42 -0600, mikel evins wrote:
> The reason I ask is that MacScheme made it easy to have most of an app 
> compiled to bytecode, which was very compact and reasonably efficient, but to 
> optionally and selectively compile performance-critical procedures to native 
> code. [...] 
> With MacScheme, the choice of bytecode or native code was a compile-time 
> decision controlled on a per-procedure basis by optimization parameters.

In Racket, all code is compiled to bytecode, and all bytecode is
compiled to native code through a JIT compiler. So, hopefully, this
will not be an issue at all.