Re: [Gcl-devel] [comp.lang.lisp] Re: Which free common lisp do you recommend?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Paul F. Dietz" <address@hidden> writes:

> I wrote:
> 
> >> Greetings!  Just saw this -- I thought we had closed all known
> >> compiler errors?  Not that we can do anything about it until after the
> >> release, just wondering.
> > It doesn't handle LOAD-TIME-VALUE yet.  LCM is also #-'ed out
> > (was that fixed?)
> 
> I'll also add that CLISP (byte) compiles rather rapidly.  I could go
> through size 10K random forms at a rate of about 1 every 2 seconds.
> 
> gcl (on the same machine) is taking more than a minute per form
> of that size.  So reaching the same level of confidence will require
> a month or more (or use of many machines).
> 

I may be able to contribute computer time to such a test if/when some
of my machines are idle, if you'd like to instruct me on what to run.

To my knowledge, the great bulk of gcl compile time is actually spent
inside gcc, though I haven't made any scientific measurements.

Take care,

>       Paul
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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