I heard that you can compile .ss files with DrScheme, and even remember doing it once to result in some good speedups on my code, since it doesn't need to put in all the debugging info necessary for the GUI. How does one go about doing this?
In the DrScheme IDE this can be found under the "Scheme -> Create Executable..." menu item. This can also be done from the command line with:
mzc --exe foo foo.ss