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Bug#449489: RFP: ikarus -- free optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : ikarus
  Version         : 0.0.1
  Upstream Author : Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum@indiana.edu>
* URL             : http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus/
* License         : GPLv3
  Programming Lang: C/Scheme
  Description     : free optimizing incremental native-code compiler for R6RS Scheme

Ikarus is an optimizing compiler, so your Scheme code will run fast
without the need to port hot spots to C "for performance". With an
incremental compiler, you don't need a separate compilation step to make
your program run fast. The best part is that the compiler itself is
fast, capable of compiling thousands of lines of code per second.

Finally, Ikarus is an R6RS compiler. R6RS is the latest revision of the
Scheme standard. The preliminary release of Ikarus supports over 80% of
the most important features R6RS, and later releases will bring Ikarus
closer to full R6RS conformance. R6RS libraries, scripts, record types,
condition system, exception handling, unicode strings, bytevectors,
hashtable, and enumerations are among the supported features.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (502, 'stable'), (501, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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