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Someone explain to me: Chez vs Gambit vs Chicken vs Bigloo. Which do I pick? Especially interested in parallel/multithreading abilities, standards compliance, and overall performance.

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This page has a useful comparison between various scheme implementations. It's written by one of the authors of Guile Scheme: https://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guid...

Out of the four you mentioned, only Chez has true posix threads.

Bigloo has support for posix threads. The only one on the list that absolutely does not have them is Chicken.

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