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Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by lacampbell on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:40PM (#13657806)
Is python really that similar from a performance perspective? The highly scientific benchmarks game cough seems to suggest Racket is usually an order of magnitude faster

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by Johnny_Brahms on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:22AM (#13658101)
Racket is a lot faster. Python is generally slower than guile, which is a lot slower than racket.

Racket is according to my unscientific benchmarks, unless the problem lends itself well to an imperative style, in the same ballpark as, but still slower than, C# on mono.

Edit: pypy on the other hand is, if the project euler forums are a good source, on par with racket.

Re:Chez Scheme as the Racket VM by igouy on Friday February 17, 2017 @12:07PM (#13669819)
Sooth that nasty cough. Show us your preferred alternative to the benchmarks game.