[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:05:40AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> What I want to see is someone come up with a project that is written in 
> compiled lisp with an interpreter running on top.  I'm conceptually
> exploring the idea of a transformational scheme compiler.

Already been done.  See CMUCL. 
 
> Well, perhaps I should say theoretically, since I haven't seen any recent
> works in this vein.  Back in the early days of scheme, a lot of work was 
> being done in compiler techiques for fast scheme execution.
 
Run away screaming.

./patrick