Posted in General, programming, scheme, gambit on Jul 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Gambit scheme lacks a profiler that can profile scheme with embedded C code. (There’s statprof, but unfortunately it doesn’t profile embeded C). I needed to do this pretty desperately for my triple indexing stuff so I’ve written a simple macro which takes wall clock timings of functions and accumulates them.
You replace ‘define’ with ‘define-timed’ […]
Posted in scheme, gambit on May 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
One of the first things I wrote when I was in the ‘nesting’* phase of learning gambit scheme was a unittest DSL. Part of this was that I wanted an excuse to use r5rs syntax-rules macros, but the real motivation was that I’d been seduced by the idea of using tests for documentation ala Nat […]
Posted in programming, lisp, scheme, gambit on Apr 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
One of the first issues I had when evaluating scheme as a possible replacement for Python as my hobby language was its apparent lack of module/library/namespace system. How do people possibly build big programs? I wondered.
Now it turns out most (all?) scheme implementations have features to deal with modules and libraries. Gambit’s is particularly nebulous […]
Posted in programming, lisp, scheme, gambit on Apr 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Somebody asked me about gambit-c the other day, and why I was using that as opposed to some other language or runtime for my own-time coding stuff.
Despite the scheme language being all cool, the thing that really made his eyes light up was the C features in gambit (it is called gambit-c for a reason). […]
