<html> <body> At 12:48 PM 1/10/2005, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Jan 10, Blake McBride wrote: > Is there any plan to improve mzc?  As you are all probably aware, > the output of mzc offers little optimization when compared to > chicken or bigloo.  MzScheme is a great development platform and has > a lot of really nice features.  It would be nice to be able to > compile it to a form more comparable to C programs as does Chicken > and Bigloo. The current plan is to work on a more proper JIT compiler, instead of going through C.  How fast will that be compared to other compiler is a question, but it will most likely be an improvement of the current state (and hopefully an improvement over mzc-compiled code too). --           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:</blockquote> Why go through all the work of writing a JIT compiler when they are entirely CPU specific?  Doesn't it make more sense to spend all that effort to generate portable optimized C?  Who cares how fast the interpreter works (within reason) so long as a fast compiler is available?  Portability is an important issue. I know JIT compilers are in vogue but an optimizing compiler through C makes much more sense. Thanks. Blake McBride </body> </html>