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In many benchmarks, Racket is significantly faster than many other Scheme implementations, including Chicken: https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ This is because it is now based on Chez.

It is certainly not compact, though.

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Racket may be significant faster than many, esp since transitioning to Chez, but its still very hard/problematic to compile to a binary, and if wrapped into a binary still very bloated in size.

FWIW: I enjoy working with Gambit, especially since it can compile to C and standalone binaries and also scores even higher than Racket.

Would be interesting to see how Crunch [0][1] does on that benchmark. Any plans to add it to the benchmark?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252127

[1] https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/6/crunch

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