Re: [Chicken-users] Advantages of CHICKEN over Gambit-C

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> CHICKEN is making some performance tradeoffs to provide more convenience
> and is heavily library oriented and appears (at least to me) more "open".
> So, naturally, I prefer it over gambit. :-)
>   
When I moved from Bigloo to Chicken, I was trading some performance for 
better ease of use, slightly larger audience, some C++ compatibility, 
and a better license.  I still think of Chicken as "performance 
oriented" in that it is a Scheme-->C compiler and is competitive in 
Shootout benchmarks.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every