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Chicken - Portable, Efficient C Compiler for the Scheme Programming Language

• derleth 16y ago
  It took me a couple tries to parse the headline. Usually, 'C compiler' means 'a compiler that compiles C (to something else)', whereas here it means 'a compiler that compiles to C (from something else)', in this case Scheme. Chicken compiles Scheme to efficient C that is then compiled to machine code by your machine's existing C compiler.
  • ehsanul 16y ago
    Should be "Scheme -> C compiler".
• wnoise 16y ago
  Call with curried chicken?
  • davty 16y ago
    Call with current continuation.
  • derleth 16y ago
    Might be more appropriate for a Haskell -> C compiler.
    • oconnore 16y ago
      No, I don't believe Haskell has first class continuations.
      • derleth 16y ago
        I was playing off the 'currying' mentioned above.
      • wnoise 16y ago
        Do they really need to be part of the language when they can be encoded so readily, either ad-hoc, or with the Cont monad / ContT monad transformer?
• jf 16y ago
  It looks like the closest Common Lisp equivalent is ECL? http://ecls.sourceforge.net/ http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
• sigzero 16y ago
  Differences from Gambit-c that does the same thing?
  • jfoutz 16y ago
    IIRC Chicken uses a really big stack to avoid to many trampoline functions. This sort of implmentation: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html It's been a long time since i've looked at it though.
  • igrekel 16y ago
    I haven't used any of them recently but I had the perception that chicken had more libraries available. Gambit's generated C code used to be easier to port on other platforms. But to address the question directly http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/bench.html http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/bench.html
• RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241015 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241015