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## Scheme Libraries
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### Native Thread Support
A multithreading API is provided based on [SRFI 18](http://justinethier.github.io/cyclone/docs/api/srfi/18). Most of the work to support multithreading is accomplished by the runtime and garbage collector.
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The interpreter's full implementation is available in the `(scheme eval)` library, and the `icyc` executable is provided for convenient access to a REPL.
### Compiler Internals
Most of the Cyclone compiler is implemented in Scheme as [a series of libraries](API.md#cyclone-libraries).
## Scheme Standards
Cyclone targets the [R<sup>7</sup>RS-small specification](https://github.com/justinethier/cyclone/raw/master/docs/r7rs.pdf). This spec is relatively new and provides incremental improvements from the popular [R<sup>5</sup>RS spec](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/). Library support is the most important new feature but there are also exceptions, system interfaces, and a more consistent API.