Chicken is a compiler app for the Scheme programming language.
Chicken produces efficient and portable C, and it supports many of the current Scheme language standard (see the list below for details).
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Here are some key features of "Chicken":
Support for:
· SRFI 0 (cond-expand )
· SRFI 1 (List library)
· SRFI 2 (and-let* )
· SRFI 4 (Homogeneous numeric vector datatypes)
· SRFI 6 (Basic string ports)
· SRFI 8 (receive )
· SRFI 9 (Record types)
· SRFI 10 (#, external form)
· SRFI 13 (String library)
· SRFI 14 (Character set library)
· SRFI 16 (case-lambda )
· SRFI 17 (Generalized set! )
· SRFI 18 (Multithreading support)
· SRFI 23 (error )
· SRFI 25 (Multidimensional array primitives)
· SRFI 26 (cut, cute )
· SRFI 28 (format)
· SRFI 30 (Block comments)
· SRFI 37 (Program argument processor)
· SRFI 38 (External representation for data with shared structure)
· SRFI 39 (Parameters)
· SRFI 40 (Stream library)
· SRFI 42 (Eager comprehensions)
· SRFI 43 (Vector library)
· SRFI 55 (require-extension)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· This release primarily fixes a bug on Linux and Solaris which causes high CPU usage when waiting for child process I/O.
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