Re: Scheme Efficiency (was Re: Limitations of Inform and TADS?)


13 Nov 1995 04:49:06 GMT

In article <47k4bg$jab@life.ai.mit.edu>, dmb@lf.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:

|> I certainly agree that Scheme can be small. I don't think it can be as
|> fast as a good implementation of a language like C for most tasks, though.

True, but I don't think it need be any worse than, for
example, the TADS interpreter. So it would be possible
to have a Scheme-based IF system that wasn't any less
efficient than what everyone is using now.

|> Dave Baggett
|> dmb@ai.mit.edu

Greg