Yes, Chez & Stalin are the fastest in these benchmarks, which seems to match what the community usually answers when asked about quick implementations.
Sadly Stalin is unmaintained. Its whole program optimization techniques were really advanced. I remember it even got my ivory-tower professors, who were big in the static analysis field, excited.
Now, a tricky question. I'm mostly unfamiliar with Scheme for writing real-world code. Will the ongoing merger of Chez with Racket make the latter a clear winner in the Scheme camp? How are libraries and FFI?
A problem with Scheme is excessive fragmentation. Having a clear winner would be cool for library support. Racket is great due to multiple paradigms and DSLs [1]. I hope it eventually becomes a very practical Lisp with all Mozart/Oz semantic goodies.
I am trying to do all my projects in a Lisp. Lately this is either Clojure or SBCL. Both have good libraries and decent FFIs. Clasp (Common Lisp on LLVM) [2] has gotten me excited, as good interfacing with C++ will be great to access a lot of quick numerics code.
[1] https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/domain-specific-languag...
[2] https://github.com/drmeister/clasp
Sadly Stalin is unmaintained. Its whole program optimization techniques were really advanced. I remember it even got my ivory-tower professors, who were big in the static analysis field, excited.
Now, a tricky question. I'm mostly unfamiliar with Scheme for writing real-world code. Will the ongoing merger of Chez with Racket make the latter a clear winner in the Scheme camp? How are libraries and FFI?
A problem with Scheme is excessive fragmentation. Having a clear winner would be cool for library support. Racket is great due to multiple paradigms and DSLs [1]. I hope it eventually becomes a very practical Lisp with all Mozart/Oz semantic goodies.
I am trying to do all my projects in a Lisp. Lately this is either Clojure or SBCL. Both have good libraries and decent FFIs. Clasp (Common Lisp on LLVM) [2] has gotten me excited, as good interfacing with C++ will be great to access a lot of quick numerics code.
[1] https://beautifulracket.com/appendix/domain-specific-languag...
[2] https://github.com/drmeister/clasp