Greetings!
Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> I think that Bill Schelter worked pretty hard at
> integrating the Maxima-GCL-Tcl/TK-C interface; he
> also may have had some insight as to why his
> continued support of GCL was better than going to
> CMUCL and CLISP (other than the natural inclination
> we all have to avoid NIH [Not Invented Here]).
>
While my opinion is quite uneducated, I must say that I also have a
positive bias toward gcl, in part because of Dr. Schelter's hard work,
in part because of the numerous benchmarks posted here which seems to
show gcl always coming out on top, and in part because of its close
connection with gcc and its compilation strategy into C code.
If indeed gcl offers certain features which are unique/superior to
other free alternatives out there, then I for one would be interested
in helping maintain it, perhaps even coordinating the project. But I
really don't have enough info to make a fair comparison. Would some
kind knowledgeable soul provide a feature/performance summary of
cmulisp, clisp, and gcl, and post here?
Thanks!
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Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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