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Small addition to FAQ on scheme performance

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@ -16,9 +16,16 @@ You may be surprised at how fast Chez Scheme is :). `Racket <https://download.ra
as an alternative target, also performs well. Both perform better than the
Idris 1 back end, which is written in C but has not had the decades of
engineering effort by run time system specialists that Chez and Racket have.
Chez Scheme also allows us to turn off run time checks, which we do.
As anecdotal evidence of the performance improvement, as of 23rd May 2020, on a
Dell XPS 13 running Ubuntu, the performance is:
* Idris 2 (with the Chez Scheme runtime) checks its own source in 93 seconds.
* The bootstrapping Idris 2 (compiled with Idris 1) checks the same source in 125s.
* Idris 1 checks the bootstrapping Idris 2's source (the same as the above,
but with minor variations due to the syntax changes) in 768 seconds.
This is, nevertheless, not intended to be a long term solution, even if it
is a very convenient way to bootstrap.