Speaking of SSA and optimizations, I just remembered that Andy Wingo (core contributor to Guile scheme) has a treasure trove of great articles, e.g. a fun intro

Speaking of SSA and optimizations, I just remembered that Andy Wingo (core contributor to Guile scheme) has a treasure trove of great articles, e.g. a fun intro to SSA [1] or CPS as used in Guile [2]. His blog is totally worth just browsing around. [1] http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assignment-for-functional-programmers http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assign... [2] http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/01/12/a-continuation-passing-style-intermediate-language-for-guile http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/01/12/a-continuation-passi...