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Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by asciilifeform on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:19PM (#587559)
> The impedance mismatch between Scheme and the JVM is a lot less than what the writer thinks

Tail call optimization? Scheme is a cruel parody of itself without it.

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Re:Clojure: It’s About the Libraries by brlewis on Thursday April 30, 2009 @06:51PM (#587716)
I can only remember two cases where I had to turn on the full-tail-call option to the Kawa compiler, and even then performance wasn't a problem. The SISC Scheme interpreter does reasonably well too, and it has full tail call optimization all the time.
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