Re: [racket-users] Criteria for selecting Chez Scheme as the runtime for Racket

2019-07-25 Thread Brian Adkins
On Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 12:45:36 PM UTC-4, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > Reordered slightly: > > At Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:04:29 -0700 (PDT), Brian Adkins wrote: > > I know Chez had a reputation for being a fast implementation - was > > performance the main criteria? > > [...] > > Were there oth

Re: [racket-users] Criteria for selecting Chez Scheme as the runtime for Racket

2019-07-25 Thread Matthew Flatt
Reordered slightly: At Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:04:29 -0700 (PDT), Brian Adkins wrote: > I know Chez had a reputation for being a fast implementation - was > performance the main criteria? > [...] > Were there other factors, in addition to > performance, that uniquely qualified Chez? Good performan

[racket-users] Criteria for selecting Chez Scheme as the runtime for Racket

2019-07-25 Thread Brian Adkins
I'm curious about the process that resulted in selecting Chez Scheme as the runtime for Racket. I know Chez had a reputation for being a fast implementation - was performance the main criteria? Were other Scheme implementations considered & rejected? If so, why? Were there other factors, in ad