Re: Hello from a new user interested in shipping applications

[Paul Fernhout <pdfernhout@kurtz-fernhout.com>]

Paul Fernhout wrote:
> [Questions about MzScheme cross-platform stability (esp. Mac) 
> and numerical performance).]

Thanks for the three replies I received so far (sent directly to me).

To summarize my current feelings based on the replies:

On Numerical performance. This does appear to be an issue for further
consideration. It looks like I would then need to improve this area
myself
(similar to the library for Gambit or NumPy for Python) if I was to use
MzScheme for numerical work. Or alternatively, I could generate C code
to do number crunching from Scheme with type hints. Either of these
might be doable with a reasonable effort (perhaps leveraging off the
approach done for say Python's NumPy) -- assuming the other parts of
the system work well enough for my purposes.

On Mac support. It looks like MzScheme works well on a wide variety of
Macintosh computers, with a strong history of support for that platform.

-Paul Fernhout
Kurtz-Fernhout Software 
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