On Nov 27, 2003, at 1:31 AM, Bill_Clementson@peoplesoft.com wrote:
- Effort is put into creating more complete LEP implementations for
different CL's so that ELI can be used effectively on multiple CL implementations. The benefit of this option is that ELI is very full-featured as it is and just the port of the underlying communication layer would need to be done. Also, since the largest commercial CL vendor supports ELI and actively enhances it, we can take advantage of both commercial and open source development efforts.
As far as I understand it, LEP won't work on non-threaded lisps, which means there will always be room for a solution that doesn't require threading. Of course taking advantage of it where present is great, but right now SBCL lacks threads on anything but x86. If you want to help out, I'm sure that we'd take any code patches towards getting gencgc working on PowerPC - it's not a trivial matter though, and in the meantime I enjoy having a development environment that works on SBCL/OS X.
-- Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb@cs.indiana.edu http://cs.indiana.edu/~bmastenb/