Brian Downing bdowning@lavos.net writes:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:07:08AM +0200, Helmut Eller wrote:
I'm tempted to remove the :sigio support for SBCL because it seems to cause problems for most people. Objections?
Could it just be made non-default if there's no threading? I like :sigio (it usually works for me for whatever reason), since on my Mac it's the only way to get any Slime interactivity while a long computation is running.
Sounds like the right idea to me, I updated swank-sbcl.lisp.
Also, there appears to be some sort of issue with :spawn and SBCL that slows down compilation considerably.
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It'd be good if issues like these could be identified before release (either as a Slime problem to be fixed or an SBCL problem to notify the SBCL developers), because a threaded SBCL and :spawn communication-style is definitely going to be the default for the long run.
Definitely we want to find and fix problems like this before the 1.0 release, but it's not an "alpha-stopper" IMO. "Everyone knows" SBCL's compiler runs slowly so nobody'll blame us anyway. :-)
-Luke