I think all of Henry Baker's papers are worth reading, but this one always struck me as a particularly clever way of compiling Scheme to C.  You get continuations, proper tail calls, and fast stack allocation that can take the place of the nursery in a generational garbage collector.



Yeah, this is also a great article.  Makes it very clear how it works in practice.

Thanks for linking this! If we are already on the subject, I'd also like to link a [blog post about CHICKEN GC](http://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html) to complement the paper :)

Cheney on the M.T.A.