Re: [Texmacs-dev] First results on Schemes, Lisps & others

[David MENTRE]

Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:

>>  - python and guile are very slow, guile being very very very slow (Oh
>>    surprise! ;)
>
> ;^(((

I have quickly tested MZScheme and RScheme. And Guile is not always the
slower. :( MZScheme seems to be very slow.

>>  - regarding interpreters, OCaml in bytecode (ocamlb) is the better, but
>>    it is not a Lisp-like language;
>
> Would it be possible (easy) to *simulate* scheme from within OCaml
> (if necessary without continuations, which we cannot use anyway
> currently (unfortunately)). When loading a scheme program,
> we might rewrite it as an Ocaml program and execute it.
> I think that this mainly supposes that there are equivalents
> for the define-macro construct.

Somebody as written a Scheme interpreter in OCaml called Schoca. I don't
know however its licensing and capabilities.

Regarding OCaml, OCaml is always compiled (as bytecode or as native
assembler), even in "interpreted" mode. So one need to include the OCaml
compiler and there might be some licensing issues with the GPL.

I'll continue to have a look at other schemes.

To be continued... :)

Yours,
d.
-- 
 David Mentré <address@hidden>