Hi,
I've been trying to use cl-ppcre in Maxima (in order to generate the online help). This has worked very nicely with clisp, cmucl and sbcl but other lisps have had problems. Gcl does not compile cl-ppcre and ecl does but it runs *very* slow. I wonder if you might have any thoughts about this?
Here is a link to part of the thread discussing this: http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2011/024147.html and here is the first item in the thread, with a link to the source http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2011/024118.html
Thanks, Leo