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+Chibi-Scheme is a very small library with no external dependencies
+intended for use as an extension and scripting language in C programs.
+In addition to support for lightweight VM-based threads, each VM itself
+runs in an isolated heap allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously in
+different OS threads.  The default language is R7RS Scheme, including
+first-class continuations and low-and-high-level hygienic macros.
+
+The current release is 0.7.2, "Nitrogen":
+
+> http://abrek.synthcode.com/chibi-scheme-0.7.2.tgz
+
+This includes the following changes:
+
+  * R7RS now the default language
+  * Initial Snow2 package manager
+  * Faster bignum arithmetic
+  * Scheme Regular Expression support (SRFI 115)
+  * Flexible and memoizable parse combinator library
+  * Interning and smarter handling of file descriptors
+  * Many bugfixes and new tests
+
+and many others.  Most features are optional at compile time.  A
+full-featured build produces a library around 200kb, whereas a
+minimal build can be under 80kb.
+
+Chibi-Scheme is known to work on 32 and 64-bit Linux, FreeBSD and
+OS X, Plan9, Windows (using Cygwin) and iOS.
+
+See the user manual for more details:
+
+> http://synthcode.com/scheme/chibi/
+
+Future releases should come at a faster pace now.  Near-term goals
+include native x86 support, batch compilation, and alternate language
+support.
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