Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> writes:
>> On the other hand, SBCL support for Windows, according to this page
>> http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html is "port in progress" so it
>> appears SBCL is not supported on the operating system used by the vast
>> majority of Maxima users.
>
> The good news is that SBCL works fine on Windows in practice. I think
> that in theory there's some racy timing bug or something that they
> were/are worried about (at least, there used to be a bizarre warning
> about a "kitten of death" when you started it...). I think you should
> take the orangey box to mean that, while they have something that works,
> they also have unincorporated patches that might make everything much
> better. That said, SBCL's definition of "mostly works" is still streets
> ahead of what GCL can do...
Replying to myself, if you want to know slightly more about what's going
on with SBCL and Windows, see the following thread on the SBCL devel
list: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.steel-bank.devel/16354
Rupert
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