feeley@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Marc Feeley) (01/31/91)
Gambit 1.51 annoucement ======================= A new version of the Gambit Scheme system is now available for the NeXT. You can get a copy of Gambit (release 1.51) via anonymous ftp from the machine acorn.cs.brandeis.edu (address 129.64.3.8). The sources (about 440K) are in the file dist/gambit1.51.tar.Z The interpreter's binary for NeXT is in the file dist/gsi1.51-NeXT.Z For those who don't know about Gambit, here is a repeat of the a previous annoucement: Gambit is an optimizing Scheme compiler/system under development at Brandeis university. It was designed with efficiency and portability as primary concerns. The current release has a back end which generates M68000 code that runs on M680x0 based unix machines (SUN3, HP300, BBN GP1000, NeXT, etc) and Apple Macintosh. Gambit's linker makes it possible to create standalone applications and to link C code with Scheme code. Gambit supports the IEEE Scheme standard and the `future' construct. Only exact arithmetic is implemented (bignums and ratnums but no flonums). The system contains an interpreter that offers a minimal debugging environment. When compiled with Gambit, Gabriel's benchmarks take (on the average) 50% and 70% of the run time required by code compiled with MIT-Scheme and T3.1, respectively. Please give me some feedback on the system if you do try it out. Marc Feeley -- feeley@cs.brandeis.edu