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Asked: 2026-05-18T11:11:00+00:00

I have written a Scheme evaluator in Java that does some parallelisation tricks. It’s

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I have written a Scheme evaluator in Java that does some parallelisation tricks. It’s not usable by anyone but me for the moment, but I’m getting some results.

The frontend and middle-end are ok for my purposes and are the parts that I want to concentrate on, but my backend sucks. It is unoptimized and is slow or lacks proper tail-call optimization.

So instead I want to target an existing VM. Does anyone know a candidate for this? It doesn’t have to be an enterprise-ready VM but at least it should

  • be (relatively) easy to target from Scheme
  • be (reasonably) portable
  • support parallel constructs out of the box
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you could get your Scheme to compile and run on the Erlang VM, that will be great. Already people are thinking seriously about this and there is a project that does the reverse.

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