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This project is unmaintained and I won't likely investigate any issues.

Pervasive tail-call optimization anyone?

A few cosmetic changes to the lovely ClojureScript compiler and we are producing output suitable for compilation to C viaGambit Scheme!

Clojure/West 2013 hosted a talk introducing clojure-scheme. Theslides are online and the corresponding video will be made available this August.

The fastest way to get started is to try the self-hosted clojure-scheme REPL:

1. Install Gambit Schemefrom source or from anOSX/Win32 installer.
2. Putgsc on your PATH (make install puts gsc in /usr/local/Gambit-C/bin by default).
3. InstallLeiningen.
4. git clone https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme.git
5. In the root clojure-scheme directory, runlein install
6. In the samples/repl directory, runlein run to build the self-hosted REPL. (src/build.clj demonstrates how to compile .clj files to scheme code).
7. runsh run-clojure-repl to launch the REPL, and enter(install-clojure-repl) to switch from Scheme mode to Clojure mode.

Gambit seems to be a promising compile target for Clojure:

(scm* [] (load "core"))(ns bench)(defn fib [n] (if  (or (identical? n 0) (identical? n 1)) 1(+  (fib (dec n) )  (fib (- n 2)))))(prn "fib 36:" (fib 36))

... in the Clojure REPL ...

cljs.compiler> (time (fib 36))"Elapsed time: 1138.814 msecs"24157817cljs.compiler> (compile-file "bench.cljs")

... in the shell ...

$ gsc -exe bench.scm$ time ./benchfib 36: 24157817real0m0.775suser0m0.737ssys0m0.009s