bartlett@DECWRL.DEC.COM (01/12/89)
The Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of a new, experimental Scheme compiler for research use on the VAX and DECstation 3100 (MIPS R2000 processor) computers. The compiler compiles Revised**3 Scheme to C that is then compiled by the native C compiler for the target machine. This design results in a portable system that allows either stand-alone Scheme programs or programs written in both compiled and interpreted Scheme and other languages. An experiment run on a microVAX II suggests that this approach does not adversely effect performance. There, the system was able to execute the Gabriel benchmarks with performance similar to that of a native Common LISP implementation. If you are a member of a research organization interested in this software, please contact me for licensing information. Joel Bartlett bartlett@decwrl.dec.com