[plt-scheme] xxx chooses MzScheme as preferred language

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On May 30, 2006, at 6:53 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

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> On May 29, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
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>> - unless we could compile all the stuff and make it quick, the stuff
>> would be slow, still that would not make users away (see Gentoo and
>> python);
>
> Are you sure that the scripts in Python are faster than equivalent  
> scripts in MzScheme?

At the risk of a bit of self-promotion, I can point you at a few  
examples that seem to indicate
that Python is a bit faster than MzScheme.  In fact, it's a bit worse  
than I show, since these
data are for Mzc-compiled routines, not the interpreter.  Run using  
mzc version 301:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/benchmark.php? 
test=all&lang=mzc&lang2=python

- -Brent


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