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Compilers! The word itself inspires excitement and awe, even among experienced practitioners. But a compiler is just a program: an eminently hackable thing. This section aims to describe Guile’s compiler in such a way that interested Scheme hackers can feel comfortable reading and extending it.
See Read/Load/Eval/Compile, if you’re lost and you just wanted to
know how to compile your .scm file.
| • Compiler Tower | ||
| • The Scheme Compiler | ||
| • Tree-IL | ||
| • Continuation-Passing Style | ||
| • Bytecode | ||
| • Writing New High-Level Languages | ||
| • Extending the Compiler |