-[ Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 01:56:32AM +0200, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz ]---- > Couldn't you use the FFI?
While FFI makes indeed things simplier, it's only one part of the story. Scheme/C integration involves also: - main() func can be C or Scheme (in order to slowly goes from C to Scheme) - Scheme runtime must support posix threads so that the important C threads are not interrupted by evaluation/compilation/GC > I haven't used Guile's yet, but hooking to > inotify in Racket was a breeze... Nor do I have used FFI from guile myself, but I've seen it used in Andy's guile-sqlite3 bindings and it's nice. See it here for instance: https://gitorious.org/guile-sqlite3/guile-sqlite3/blobs/master/sqlite3.scm > Of course, if C-level performance is > a requirement, you'd need to switch to a CL compiler ;-) Many CL compilers are wonderful but there is no reason why a Scheme compiler can't be made faster. Anyway, you'd have to get rid of the dynamic type checks and the GC to match C speed, so we won't see this happen soon.
