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Re:Show HN: Bel by roryrjb on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:27AM (#21232222)
I always thought that SBCL was considered high performance and for example Chicken Scheme compiles to C. Both might be slower than Rust but I always had the impression both of these were more performant than say Java, but I haven't used either in a meaningful way to really know how it would rate for your performance needs.
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Re:Show HN: Bel by cylinder714 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:15PM (#21234641)
Chicken's author also created Bones, a Scheme that outputs x86-64 assembly language.

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/

README: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/bones.ht...

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Re:Show HN: Bel by ska on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:30PM (#21235172)
SBCL is quite fast for a lot of things. I used to use it frequently for research projects that required performant code, and it generally wasn't to difficult to get within a factor of 2 of c code, though getting much closer could be hard. I haven't really kept up with it recently, but it regularly impressed me at the time.
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