[plt-scheme] Help writing non-trivial applications.

--- Geoffrey Knauth <geoff at knauth.org> wrote:
> PLT is a great project with many good features.
> The only concern I remember is speed, so a separate
> article on porting working PLT programs to Schemes 
> built mainly for speed would allay those fears.

For performance enthusiasts, I recommend a quick
look at the Programming Language Shootout.

We've got a new side-by-side comparison mode (which
is still quite slow), but you can see some interesting
data on relative performance between language
implementations.

Here we can see:

1.  That MZC does provide some benefit:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=mzscheme&lang2=mzc&sort=fullcpu

2.  MZC is often an order of magnitude slower than
Chicken Scheme.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=mzc&lang2=chicken&sort=fullcpu

3. MZC is quite slower than Bigloo:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=mzc&lang2=bigloo&sort=fullcpu

4. MZC looks pretty good compared to Guile:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/great/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=mzc&lang2=guile&sort=fullcpu

-Brent