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From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: Re: Dynamic inheritance using Scheme?
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:27:28 GMT
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smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin) writes:

>xjam@fir.CS.Berkeley.EDU (The Crossjammer) writes:

>> Hey why don't we take out 'read' while we're at it? Clearly it can be
>> 

>Howdy,
>        I think that this is an excellent idea.

One of the classic mistakes that Scheme compiler writers make
is to rewrite all of the run-time in Scheme.  I wrote a Scheme
routine to read a 3D model which took 10 minutes in compiled
Scheme2C and < 1 sec. in the native C model-reader library.

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Lance Norskog
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