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by tbirdz 3695 days ago
Chez scheme was recently released as free software. Not sure how it compares to SBCL, but it blows all the other scheme implementations out of the water: https://www.nexoid.at/tmp/scheme-benchmark-r7rs.html

https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme
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jgw 3695 days ago
Interesting! I'm wide open to more Scheme in my life - so thanks for the pointers.
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nickpsecurity 3695 days ago
It's not just an impressive Scheme that I plan to try but it's history from 8-bit to modern implementations was a fun read. Many clever tradeoffs made. See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210931

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