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## C Code Generation ## C Code Generation
anything worth mentioning here? tuples of allocations/code?? anything worth mentioning here? mention converting scheme sexp => strings? tuples of allocations/code??
## C Runtime ## C Runtime
Henry Baker's paper [CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments: Cheney on the M.T.A.](http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html) was used as the target runtime as it provides a reasonably fast approach meeting all of the fundamental requirements for a Scheme runtime: tail calls, garbage collection, and continuations. Henry Baker's paper [CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments: Cheney on the M.T.A.](http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html) was used as the target runtime as it provides a reasonably fast approach meeting all of the fundamental requirements for a Scheme runtime: tail calls, garbage collection, and continuations.