[plt-scheme] build-vector avoids sharing problem
Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls at informaat.nl> responds to me:
from a quick perusal of the mzc manual, wouldn't this make your
code native, giving you the speed boost you are looking for?
I tend to think that mzc isn't a serious competitor of Gambit, but
instead is a way of making DrScheme libraries, which sounds like a
really good thing but a different thing. From the manual:
1.1 mzc Is...
The mzc compiler takes MzScheme (or MrEd) source code and
produces [...] platform-specific native-code libraries (.so or
.dll files) to be loaded into MzScheme (or MrEd).
The native-code compiler attempts to optimize a source program so
that it runs faster than the source-code or byte-code version of
the program. See section 1.4 for information on obtaining the
best possible performance from mzc-compiled programs.
1.2 mzc Is Not...
mzc does not generally produce stand-alone executables from
Scheme source code. The compiler's output is intended to be
loaded into MzScheme (or MrEd or DrScheme). However, see also
section 5 for information about embedding code into a copy of the
MzScheme (or MrEd) executable.
mzc does not translate Scheme code into similar C
code. Native-code compilation produces C code that relies on
MzScheme to provide run-time support, which includes memory
management, closure creation, procedure application, and
primitive operations.