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Re: difficulty of writing translators


> > Guile's call/cc is a lot more expensive than break/continue/return,
> > unfortunately.
> 
> Is that fixable through optimization (say, in a bytecode compiler) or
> inherent in its meaning?

Some of it is fixable, but it would take some reasonably aggressive
analysis.  The rest of it is pretty intrinsic.