Page"
>Gambit-C</a>, and much faster than when
it's interpreted by any of <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html" >Guile</a>, <a
href="http://plt-scheme.org/" >MzScheme</a>, SCM, Elk, or Chicken's
interpreter.  It also <b>runs reasonably fast</b>; on my laptop, it
compiles about 1000 lines of Scheme per user CPU second, which is not
fast in absolute terms (on the same hardware, gas assembles the
resulting 66&nbsp;000-line assembly file in just over half a second,
which is about 100&nbsp;000 l