Benchmarks

At this time we have several sets of benchmark data online:

• The Kernighan and Van Wyk micro-benchmarks were written to test the performance of a variety of scripting languages, including Scheme. They include several good tests of file i/o. We have used them to illustrate the wide range in performance among popular implementations of Scheme.
• The results described above were last updated in April 1996. Our more recent results include timings for the Kernighan and Van Wyk benchmarks on an even wider variety of implementations of Scheme.
• Our older benchmark results contain a few comparisons between Scheme, Common Lisp, Standard ML, and C or C++.