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mahmud on Feb 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Scheme Faster than C?

Orbit was ground-breaking, but it's Stalin that's the most powerful optimizing compiler for Scheme, or perhaps any other language.

silentbicycle on Feb 19, 2011 [–]

Sure but it's mentioned in-thread already, while Orbit explains the CPS and others well.

mahmud on Feb 19, 2011 | [–]

Yep. I responded before reading the whole thread.

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