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Indeed. TinyScheme being a single file of C code hides this fact at a first glance. I didn't want to diminish Lua, which I find quite good too (I wish LuaJIT was usable on iOS), but I was really looking forward to dive into Lisp.

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LuaJIT is usable as an interpreter on iOS, just not a jit compiler. It is a very fast interpreter, but obviously this is not ideal (and the ffi is slower without jit).

Android L is also going to kill jit compilers as well alas, see [1]

[1] http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/609511/53f3d97eed238d55/

Yeah I liked LuaJIT for the amazing JIT performance and the super fast FFI it enables. Exactly the two things that wouldn't work in iOS. I had no idea Android L was killing JITs. It's a terrible precedent seeing how many dynamic languages depend on a JIT to perform decently.

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