Windows installer with another lisp. Which should I choose?
Subject: Windows installer with another lisp. Which should I choose?
From: Henry Baker
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:40:57 -0700
It looks like SBCL may have the most sophisticated (free) Lisp, and
appears to go well beyond the CLtL1 spec that is supported by GCL.
I suspect that much of the sophistication of SBCL is lost on
Maxima in terms of performance gains, though, because Maxima
has too many side-effects.
Nevertheless, SBCL has a 64-bit version, and supports modern
character sets.
The good news about SBCL is that its tighter type system catches
many bugs during compilation instead of at run-time, which is a
very good thing. It may take longer to get Maxima running in
SBCL, but it's probably worth the effort.
I often work in SBCL during code development for this reason,
because SBCL is able to catch more bugs.
At 08:01 PM 9/18/2013, David Billinghurst wrote:
>I am considering making an experimental windows installer with an alternate lisp.
>
>An recommendations on which lisp should I try? I have successfully built windows binaries with most of the free lisps that work on windows, but haven't built an installer with anything but gcl.