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Stalin: Brutally Optimizing Scheme Compiler (github.com/barak)
5 points by medo-bear on Oct 11, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I used this as recently as 2018. It was available as a package in Chicken Scheme 4, but I don't think it was brought over to 5. Couldn't get it to build otherwise on MacOS or OpenBSD, but my hardware was underpowered.

It's neat I guess. The benchmarks I wrote were close to C, but I had trouble porting significantly complex Scheme to something Stalin could compile. I think it makes more sense to strongly type your own code than to wait ages for it to be inferred.

Hope this discussion doesn't devolve into complaints about the name again. It's okay to be a bit cheeky.




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