Re: [Axiom-developer] Old Lisp

[Cliff Yapp]

On Sunday 13 August 2006 3:21 am, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 1. As far as I know, GCL and CLISP are the only open source Lisps that
> run on Windows. CMUCL for sure doesn't and SBCL may not either. CMUCL
> probably never will, but SBCL has a good chance.

I believe ECL also works on Windows, but I don't know too much about it beyond 
that.

> 2. I think GCL is faster than CLISP.

Yes, this is what I have heard as well.  (Indeed, new-clx on clisp was written
specificly to solve performance issues that the usual clx has, IIRC.)

SBCL has made strides on Windows, but keep in mind some issues are EXTREMELY 
difficult to handle in porting and it will likely be a very long time before 
sbcl is full featured on both Linux and Windows.

For a quick summary of platforms supported by sbcl, there is this page:
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html

These are the to-do lists I am aware of for the sbcl port:
http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/TODO.Win32
http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/TODO.win32

Cheers,
CY