benchmarking Scheme and Tcl

Karthik Balachandran (kbalach@cadev6.intel.com)
Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:06:23 -0700 (PDT)

Hi :
I am a currently working with others on a benchmarking project. We are
benchmarking Tcl and Scheme as extension languages for CAD software.
Tcl8.0 and Guile-1.2 are being used for the benchmarking. Since Tcl 8.0 is
a bytecode compiler-interpreter(hence faster) the results were better than
previous versions of Tcl.
Earlier benchmark results showed that scheme was much faster than Tcl.
The results from Tcl8.0 however showed that Tcl was faster or comparably fast
in many cases (one such instance is when more math functions are involved).
This is because the script is compiled into bytecodes and then interpreted.
Is there a guile version which features a bytecode-compiler ?
Is it fair to benchmark using the bytecode-compiler featured Tcl8.0 and the
purely interpretive guile-1.2 ?

Thanks,
-Karthik