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Per Bothner writes: > > And my guess is that it is one of the very few fastest Scheme > > interpreters that currently exist. (My guess is still that it is the > > second fastest after SCM.) > > If you restrict yourself to true interpreters, that may be true. Of course it is necessary to restrict to true interpreters, for its unfair otherwise. Bytecode or native code are intented to optimize performance at the cost of extra stages of compilation. On the other hand, the relative benchmarks in the comp.lang.scheme article vary significantly from task to task (within the test suite). > If you also consider implementations that compile to an internal > format (such as bytecode), that is not consistent with my limited > benchmarks. Scheme48 is much faster, and Kawa is also noticeably > faster. See: Does that depend on the Java virtual machine? (jdk, kaffe, ...) ? While being at kawa, I have seen a new free partial clone of Sun's java standard library announced on the gnu software page. Will that one be tested with kawa, too? -- Klaus Schilling