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

On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:56 AM, mikel evins <mevins at me.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Good to know. Maybe you're right; maybe human-controlled JIT (which is what the MacScheme strategy amounted to) is redundant.
> 

Oh, except for the case where I want to deploy on iOS, which forbids JIT.

Of course, Racket doesn't deliver on iOS anyway, as far as I know, except through the expedient of compiling to Javascript (which may be adequate; we'll soon see.)