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Look at the Java byte code format [1] for ideas, although Java byte code seems a bit low level. Basically, the primitive expressions in Scheme need to have corresponding byte codes, while nearly everything else is derived from those primitive expressions. The built-in procedures for the various types will continue to be implemented in Go for sake of performance.

Consider the impact this may have on the (read) and (eval) procedures; perhaps eval would perform JIT compilation to byte code.

Consider writing the compiled byte code to a file to avoid compiling the same code repeatedly. See the Java class file format for ideas [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_bytecode
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file

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Using Eli Bendersky's "bob" [1] Scheme compiler/interpreter written in Python (ignoring the C++ version for now) as a guide for implementing the equivalent in Go.

[1] https://github.com/eliben/bobscheme

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Fixed in commit cdbc261.

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