[Jscheme-user] bootstrapping JScheme?

[Ken A. <kan...@bb...>]

Tim wrote a tiny version of JScheme, that used reflection extensively, without primitive procedures.  Unfortunately, the performance of reflective methods is about 3 times worse than primitives for the -client JVM, though it seems better for the -sever JVM.  This got me thinking ...

Currently we primitives.scm is used to generate Primitive.java which provides all the JScheme primitives.  

It aught to be possible to take a class and through reflection, generate a class that provides primitive procedures that correspond to its methods.

Take the Math.class for example.  sin() would only work for a double, but 
max and min could work for all numeric types.

k