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Re:/dev/null is an ACID compliant database on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:35AM (#45695700)
It's great. We saw a 2000% throughput increase on our business analytics platform when we switched to a /dev/null backend.
Re:Practical Scheme on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:02AM (#45656696)
The best way I've found to make a standalone executable is to compile my scheme program into a .boot file and embed it, along with Chez's .boot files, into a small C program that then calls the scheme program.

All of the necessary functions to create such a C program documented here: https://cisco.github.io/ChezScheme/csug10.0/foreign.html#./f...

The relevant functions for this applictation are:

Sscheme_init

Sregister_boot_file_bytes

Sbuild_heap

Senable_expeditor (if you want to use Chez's builtin REPL)

Sscheme_start

Sscheme_deinit

I'd post an example program, but I've not got access to my development machine at the moment.