[plt-scheme] Scheme performance

Scott McLoughlin wrote at 11/14/2009 12:57 PM:
>
> So either an NFA or DFA based regex processor can be easily written in 
> scheme,
> so in my theoretical "benchmark"," the regex routines would have to be 
> written
> in Scheme, and so on and so forth.

I am taking a higher-level view when I choose PLT Scheme.  As a tool, 
it's a black box, and I don't care whether it's self-hosting and layered 
only atop x86 instructions or a libc.

Asking whether the Scheme implementation itself is implemented entirely 
in Scheme is perfectly valid, but I think that's of more interest to 
compilers people or people asking "Should I use this particular 
implementation to code my real-time OS kernel."

BTW, for regexps implemented in portable, pure Scheme, see 
"http://evalwhen.com/pregexp/index.html".  I found this library very 
useful under PLT Scheme years ago, although PLT's built-in regexp 
support was faster.

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