# Scheme implementation performance

I found the following quote from
[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?Scheme<wbr>Implementations](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SchemeImplementations)
helpful:

>performance: Depends on what you're doing, but in general, -C compilers
>(Stalin, Bigloo, Gambit, Chicken) come at the top, with Stalin somewhat
>faster than the others; some compilers (mzc) are on par with fastest
>interpreters. Interpreters fall in three classes, fast (Racket, Gauche,
>RScheme, STklos), intermediate (Scheme48, scsh, SCM, MIT Scheme, Guile 2.0)
>and rather slow (guile1.6). guile1.4 is yet slower.


See also:

- (Added 2017-08-22) Recent [results](https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/) from a benchmark for R7RS implementations
- [an opinionated guide to scheme implementations](http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide-to-scheme-implementations) by Andy Wingo
- [Scheme Unicode support](http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/UnicodeSupport) comparison

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URL: <https://dbohdan.com/scheme-perf.md>

Published 2014-10-13, updated 2021-08-21.

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