> Oh, actually: Stalin probably does. It's an R4RS compiler. Good luck getting it to compile, though. It took me a few hours and a lot of code changes to get it

> Oh, actually: Stalin probably does. It's an R4RS compiler. Good luck getting it to compile, though. It took me a few hours and a lot of code changes to get it to compile half a decade ago (I wanted to compare the one I was writing, which was a lot worse, naturally, but much easier to compile). The compiler itself is slow as a tortoise, but it generates really wonderful code. It's probably rotted a bit now, though. Stalin isn't really a good compiler in the realm of high-performance computing. What did and does make Stalin awesome is that it showed how you could compile away most of the overhead of using a very high-level language (Scheme) and end up with code that matched reasonably written C. That does not mean its competitive with the code generated by a heavily vectorising Fortran compiler for number crunching. Stalin is more about removing language overheads than about pushing the hardware to the hilt. If you want a compiler built around the same rough philosophy as Stalin, then there's MLton, which is also still maintained: http://mlton.org/ http://mlton.org/