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@ -9,6 +9,23 @@ Cyclone is a brand-new Scheme-to-C compiler that allows practical development of
Cyclone is the first compiler written entirely in the latest R<sup>7</sup>RS Scheme language standard, and the intent is to support as much of that language as possible. Cyclone is the first compiler written entirely in the latest R<sup>7</sup>RS Scheme language standard, and the intent is to support as much of that language as possible.
Features
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- Support for the majority of the Scheme language as specified by the latest [R<sup>7</sup>RS standard](docs/Scheme-Language-Compliance.md).
- New features from R<sup>7</sup>RS including libraries, exceptions, and record types.
- Built-in support for Unicode strings and characters.
- Hygienic macros based on `syntax-rules`
- Low-level explicit renaming macros
- Guaranteed tail call optimizations
- Native multithreading support
- A foreign function interface that allows easy integration with C
- A concurrent, generational garbage collector based on Cheney on the MTA
- Includes an optimizing Scheme-to-C compiler,
- ... as well as an interpreter for debugging
- Support for [many popular SRFI's](docs/API.md#srfi-libraries)
- Online user manual and API documentation
Getting Started Getting Started
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