Benevolent Dictatorship

[Mike McDonald]

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>From: Rodrigo Ventura <yoda@isr.ist.utl.pt>
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>>>>>> "Rainer" == Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com> writes:
>
>    Rainer> Currently CMU CL is the only choice for a CL-based system (IMHO).
>    >> 
>    >> Why do you say "only"?
>
>    Rainer> Because it is the only system with a native code compiler.
>    Rainer> And some people are still hacking with CMU CL.
>
>        My opinion fall down alot when I tried a trivial factorial
>function, and observed CMUCL core dumping! How can a factorial
>function core-dump the CL system with large integers??? And when I
>tried a agent society simulation I developed using CLISP, it kept on
>GC'ing continuously, and ended-up going nowhere. Another thing I
>didn't like was the hard-coded directory locations.
>

  Did you report the bug in CMUCL?


  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com