[slime-devel] Re: [Ilisp-devel] SLIME

[Brian Mastenbrook]

On Nov 27, 2003, at 1:31 AM, Bill_Clementson at peoplesoft.com wrote:

> 2. Effort is put into creating more complete LEP implementations for
> different CL's so that ELI can be used effectively on multiple CL
> implementations. The benefit of this option is that ELI is very
> full-featured as it is and just the port of the underlying 
> communication
> layer would need to be done. Also, since the largest commercial CL 
> vendor
> supports ELI and actively enhances it, we can take advantage of both
> commercial and open source development efforts.

As far as I understand it, LEP won't work on non-threaded lisps, which 
means there will always be room for a solution that doesn't require 
threading. Of course taking advantage of it where present is great, but 
right now SBCL lacks threads on anything but x86. If you want to help 
out, I'm sure that we'd take any code patches towards getting gencgc 
working on PowerPC - it's not a trivial matter though, and in the 
meantime I enjoy having a development environment that works on SBCL/OS 
X.

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