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by jbclements 3180 days ago
(Mostly just hoisting Noel Welsh's comment to the top level) How will the expected upcoming move of Racket to the use of Chez affect the comparison between Gerbil and Racket? I'm trying not to set my expectations too high. BTW: RacketCon! This weekend!
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baldfat 3180 days ago
I am super excited for Chez. If we see the speed we are look at a possible doubling in speed.

There is certainly a reason why he has stuck with Gambit and not my beloved Racket. This seems perfect for using Racket's macros. I just don't know Gambit's Macros well enough to compare them to Racket.

Here is the Bench Marks for Chez, Racket and Gambit https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/

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WindowsFon4life 3180 days ago
Gerbil is there as well.
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616c 3180 days ago
No way!!! Holy crap balls will this get interesting. To be clear, is this what mflatt's racket7 repo is all about!? This is what I found from quick Googling.

https://github.com/racket/racket7

Is this like research work like Pycket (Racket on PyPy) or is this a blessed project and Rackets official implementation will cut over

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capnrefsmmat 3180 days ago
It's the official goal of Racket to be based on Chez in the next couple years:

> TL;DR: I expect the main Racket distribution to run on Chez Scheme instead of the current Racket VM sometime in the next couple of years.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-dev/2BV3ElyfF8Y/4RSd3...

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