LispOS compiler question

Martin Cracauer cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:06:06 +0100


In <199711181454.JAA26887@everest.ccs.neu.edu>, Lars Thomas Hansen wrote: 
> 
> >The only <etc> for Scheme is RScheme (www.rscheme.org)
> 
> Why not Gambit-C, Scheme->C, Bigloo, or indeed, MIT Scheme, which has a
> compiler that generates C?  Gambit and Bigloo, at least, are actively
> supported.
> 
> (On the other hand, RScheme is the only one of these that has a
> generational GC.)

The post-18a CMUCL/x86 work (snapshots available from
ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/experimental) includes
threads and a generational GC. Note the "experimental", but people
run significant program on it.

Martin
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