I tried that. Not very easy as Ikarus' hash-tables don't work like mzscheme's (there is no "equal" hash-tables). You would have to rewrite the reader too. And I'm not sure we would get all the stuff with sockets and networking. It doesn't have an FFI yet, either.
Well, actually, I'm not sure if implementing a still-designed language in the beta-release of a compiler is a long-term solution... :) Maybe in a few months / years this could be done ? But as for now, I think porting it to CL would be easier.
If you look in the long term run the best (and most difficult) solution would be to write an Arc compiler that translates Arc code directly in machine code.
I also suggest that. In fact, looking at Chicken's implementation - stack == heap - is rather inspiring, because it shows exactly how a garbage-collected memory manager should be done: just decrement a pointer, in this case the stack pointer. Brilliant IMO. Wish I'd thought of that.
