Implementation Language

[Doug Evans]

Ben Elliston writes:
 > We've been running CGEN purely interpeted for several months now and no one
 > is finding the speed to be a problem at all.

The smob class implementation is gone too though.
Debugging was much easier with it.
[Of course, for those tuning in late, should the implementation
remain in Guile, yes, we'll want to switch to goops (IMO of course).]

That's probably the first decision we need to reach:
do we stick with Guile?  There's no other politically correct
choice for a Scheme implementation. Or do we switch to C? (/C++?).
[I can here the cackles now ...]

I think speed of code generation is important, but I also think
there's no reason why a Scheme implementation can't satisfy that.
However, I think the current Guile implementation has a _long_ way to go
in this regard, and I'm not convinced it will ever get there.