[Ecls-list] [ANN] ECL 12.7.1

[Matthew Mondor]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:31:58 +0200
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at gmail.com> wrote:

> In addition to this, the following problems persist:
> 
> * Cygwin's library is still broken: fork/exec fails to reload the
>   cygwin library, or ECL's compiled libraries in a completely random
>   fashion. For this reason we recommend using ext:system instead of
>   ext:run-program in that platform.
> 
> * In Windows ECL comes with bytecodes compiler by default, because C
>   compilers are normally not avaiable. Unfortunately several
>   libraries out there are not prepared for this. If you plan to use
>   quicklisp and have a C compiler accessible to ECL, you may use
>   (ext:install-c-compiler) to switch back to the Lisp-to-C compiler.

* Intermittent high contention lock related performance issue :)
  But I still didn't retry again with
  fbd3587b1af74a2c5efcdb70671ec9314802fd2e to confirm that the issue
  wasn't present with it...

Awesome for the release though, thanks.
-- 
Matt