Outline

1. Title
2. Outline
3. Announcing Common Larceny
4. Promoting Common Larceny
5. Common Larceny is full Scheme
6. Interoperability (part 0)
7. JavaDot syntax
8. JavaDot example
9. Common Larceny is compiler-based
10. Criticism of Common Larceny
11. Outline of Technical Stuff
12. The Larceny Project
13. Benchmark results
14. Expected performance
15. Twobit: example
16. Twobit: A-normal form
17. Twobit: MacScheme machine code
18. Twobit: SPARC machine code
19. Twobit: ANSI C code
20. Weird language features
21. Weird target misfeatures
22. Integer arithmetic
23. Generic arithmetic
24. Pure OO
25. Interoperability (part 1)
26. Control structures
27. Continuations as objects
28. Interoperability (part 2)
29. Block structure
    • original source
    • after macro expansion
    • after lambda lifting
    • A-normal form
30. Guaranteed asymptotic space complexity
31. How we could improve Common Larceny
32. How Microsoft could improve the CLR
33. Conclusion