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Re: Scheme & number crunching




Noel Welsh wrote:

> ...  Nothing in
> Scheme precludes fast number crunching.

Dynamic typing?
'Boxed' representation [for GC] of numbers?

And (at least for *some* implementations of Scheme):
  lousily inefficient access to non-local variables...

Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France