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If it’s running in Chez, it’s probably compiled: chez, sbcl and other lisps often compile everything before executing it.
by fiddlerwoaroof 5y ago
If it’s running in Chez, it’s probably compiled: chez, sbcl and other lisps often compile everything before executing it.
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y ago> Chez Scheme compiles source forms as it sees them to machine code before evaluating them, i.e., "just in time." https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug9.5/use.html https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug9.5/use.html There is no such thing as a “compiled language”: some languages are implemented as compilers and some as interpreters, but nothing prevents writing a compiler for most languages.
- dTal 5y agoWhile this is technically true, it's possible for a language to be so mismatched to the underlying architecture, and so difficult to reason about, that the "compiled" version is not much better than an interpreter bundled with the source code.