[slime-devel] Re: The 1.0-alpha plan

[Luke Gorrie]

Brian Downing <bdowning at lavos.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:07:08AM +0200, Helmut Eller wrote:
>> I'm tempted to remove the :sigio support for SBCL because it seems to
>> cause problems for most people.  Objections?
>
> Could it just be made non-default if there's no threading?  I like
> :sigio (it usually works for me for whatever reason), since on my Mac
> it's the only way to get any Slime interactivity while a long
> computation is running.

Sounds like the right idea to me, I updated swank-sbcl.lisp.

> Also, there appears to be some sort of issue with :spawn and SBCL that
> slows down compilation considerably.
[...]
> It'd be good if issues like these could be identified before release
> (either as a Slime problem to be fixed or an SBCL problem to notify the
> SBCL developers), because a threaded SBCL and :spawn communication-style
> is definitely going to be the default for the long run.

Definitely we want to find and fix problems like this before the 1.0
release, but it's not an "alpha-stopper" IMO. "Everyone knows" SBCL's
compiler runs slowly so nobody'll blame us anyway. :-)

-Luke