[plt-scheme] xxx chooses MzScheme as preferred language

From: Brent Fulgham (bfulg at pacbell.net)
Date: Wed May 31 16:31:34 EDT 2006

Paulo wrote:
> Wow, I must say the interface is very nice. It is sad, however, that
> the results for MZC Scheme are not nice. Which is one of my worse
> fears... Scheme is nice but when it comes to speed, you just can't
> compare it with C/C++.

Not true.  Compare Bigloo with Python (much faster) and C, which it only
looses to by a factor of 2 or so.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/old/benchmark.php?test=all〈=bigloo&lang2=gcc

-Brent





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