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dmux • yesterday at 2:22 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I know Racket was reworked to build upon Chez Scheme several years ago. If the HN migration to CL was due to performance reasons, I wonder if sticking it out and waiting for the Chez version of Racket would have paid off.

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vindarel • yesterday at 3:00 PM

here:

    I’m curious: was Arc running Racket BC or CS? I understand it got a big performance boost after switching to Chez Scheme.

    dang: It was running BC. I had high hopes for switching to CS because I'd heard the same thing you had, but when I tried it, HN slowed to a crawl. This stuff is so unpredictable.
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