Larceny is an implementation of the

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built around the Twobit optimizing

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. Larceny offers several back-ends able to target native x86 and

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code. Petit Larceny is also available and emits C source code, which can then be further compiled to native code with an ordinary C compiler. Older versions (<0.98) included support for the

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architecture in Larceny, and for

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via Common Larceny. Larceny supports all major Scheme standards (R⁵RS, IEEE/ANSI, R⁶RS, and R⁷RS. The Larceny software is

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and available online.

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