[elephant-devel] Pure-Lisp memutil?

[Ian Eslick]

You'll notice that the cmu/sbcl implementation doesn't use the memutil C
library routines and allegro doesn't need to (in fact it's faster), but
then it conses which kicks in the GC more often.  Reading through
memutil.lisp should give you a feel for some of the design tradeoffs...

Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> I was wondering why was C memutil needed. Couldn't it be possible to use
> memcpy and al. with FFI in CL code?
>
> Curiously,
> Pierre
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