[plt-scheme] A Comment on MzScheme Performance vis-a-vis Web Applications

From: Brent Fulgham (bfulg at pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Jun 8 13:18:35 EDT 2006


----- Original Message ----
From: Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at yahoo.com>
> --- "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This last sentence is brain-damaging me. So, you mean
> > that code compiled with mzc is slower than if you run it
> > in mzscheme (interpreted)? Or mzscheme is already
> > compiling code also?
>
> It take it to mean the just in time (JIT) compiler recently
> introduced in MzScheme (after 301 IIRC) produces faster
> code than that produced by mzc.

Exactly.  The MzScheme JIT is currently faster than the
executables produced by the MzC Scheme->C
compiler.

-Brent





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