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Re: difficulty of writing translators


> > R4RS Scheme has call-with-current-continuation, which is much more flexible 
> > than the jump instructions of imperative languages, at least is capable to
> > emulate them.
> 
> Guile's call/cc is a lot more expensive than break/continue/return,
> unfortunately.

Is that fixable through optimization (say, in a bytecode compiler) or
inherent in its meaning?