Re: Erlang style processes in Common Lisp

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How might we get equivalent cheap ephemeral processes into a contemporary Common Lisp implementation?

In short, you need to write from scratch a new CL implementation. Current ones are not designed with the Erlang constraints in mind.

well, Nikodemus had some plans for green threads for SBCL and it didn't sound like a rewrite.

and adding first class heaps would be a very useful addition with or without any of the other erlang stuff. i don't know how hard that is, but i assume it should be rather simple if the responsibility is pushed over to the user to make sure that there are no dangling pointers after destroying a heap.

or am i missing something?