Why is guile still so slow?

I don't understand while Guile is so slow. According to these benchmarks http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/benchmarks-20100126/log3/Benchmarks.html GNU Guile is running about a order of magnitude slower than Bigloo, Chicken, Gambit, Ikarus, Larceny, MIT, and Racket(PLT) with most task. I am asking wh

Re: Why is guile still so slow?

Thank you for the responses everybody.