From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-12-18T15:32:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Best compiled language for extending Ruby

Sharkie Landshark wrote:
> I am thinking of Stalin Scheme, and that is because I hear it is fast. 
> My first programming language is Scheme, and that is still my favorite. 
> I like Ruby because I find it similar to Lisp/Scheme -- in a strange 
> way.
> 
> Anyway, can I compile Stalin Scheme to C, or is there a high performance 
> scheme that will compile to C? It will allow me to get my work done 
> fastest, and most naturally suite my logics. I am very excited in 
> hearing that it can compile to C.

There are several Scheme-to-C processors that I know of, and there are 
lots of published speed benchmarks. The ones I can recall off the top of 
my head are bigloo, larceny, gambit-c and chicken. I personally like 
gambit-c because it has an Erlang-like lightweight process extension 
called Termite. And I'm pretty sure Chicken has a SWIG interface, which 
means you could drive common C libraries from both Chicken and Ruby via 
SWIG.

If you head over to comp.lang.scheme, I think you'll get plenty of answers.