[plt-scheme] R6RS Interoperability

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Mark Engelberg
<mark.engelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...  I'm starting to actually use
> PLT Scheme to get real work done (as opposed to just using it for
> educational purposes), and there's nothing I find more frustrating
> than writing something in Scheme, and then realizing I need to rewrite
> it in some other language for performance reasons.  Of course, many
> applications aren't performance-sensitive, but it would be nice if
> there were an easy path to higher performance when necessary.

If your application involves something for which high performance C
libraries are available (e.g. BLAS for linear algebra) you can very
easily create binding to those libraries using the FFI.  Will Farr's
plt-linalg library is a good example of this.

I'd like more speed as much as the next programmer, but I expect
getting funding for compiler development is very difficult as the
basics have been done many times over and therefore have very little
research value.

N.