>wouldn't it need some kind of VM for macros and memory management and such? Not a VM: it's compiled. It needs to bind to libchicken, and it needs to do some t

>wouldn't it need some kind of VM for macros and memory management and such? Not a VM: it's compiled. It needs to bind to libchicken, and it needs to do some things that native C programs wouldn't. Also, you wouldn't need a VM for macros: they're a compile-time feature, and don't even exist at runtime. Yeah, it's not humanly noticable.