Why do we need gcl at all?



dan.stanger@ieee.org writes:
 > In a previous message to the list, I saw a bench mark that indicated
 > that clisp was only about 30% slower then gcl.  Wouldnt our time
 > be better served by building the stuff in clisp that gcl has,
 > which I thought was tk support, and then putting our time into cmucl
 > and making it work on more platforms?  clisp is a gpl'd product also,
 > works on many more platforms than gcl.  Plus, it implements CLOS,
 > and many more features then gcl.
 > Dan Stanger

Well, running lie symmetry calculations(SYMMGRP), clisp is slower by at least a 
factor of 10!

Osman