Re: Benchmarks for Scheme/Guile and translation to Scheme

[Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>]

> Does anyone know of any standard benchmarks for Scheme?  I know there
> were a some pointers to benchmarks for Guile posted awhile ago, but
> I was wondering if there were any more "standard" benchmark suites.
> 
> Related to this I was wondering about translators from other languages
> to Scheme/Guile.  If I can't find a nice benchmark suite for Scheme, I
> was thinking I may be able to convert a suite for another language into
> Scheme.
> 
> I've found some benchmarks for functional languages but they are for
> things like ML, Haskell, etc.  Anyone know of any there are programs
> to convert other functional languages to Scheme?

Will Clinger has translated the Gabriel Lisp benchmarks into Scheme.
Check out http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/code.misc.html.

Also, Clinger gathered together a bunch of benchmarks for evaluating
his Scheme system, Larceny.
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Twobit/benchmarks.html