Kawa: Compiling Scheme to Java
1.22 Conclusion
Kawa is a solid implementation of Scheme with many features.
It is portable to any environment that can run Java applications.
It has active use and development.
I have not bothered running benchmarks, because the state
of the art in Java implementation is in such flux, because
many optimizations are planned but have not been implemented,
and because the different feature sets of the various Scheme implementations
makes them difficult to compare fairly.
But Kawa has the potential of being
a reasonably fast Scheme implementation (though probably never
among the very fastest), and will reap benefits from current
efforts in Java compilation (see P.~Bothner:
A Gcc-based Java implementation.
IEEE Compcon 1997 Proceedings (to appear), 1997).
