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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: What's the best Common Lisp implementation for Linux ?
Message-ID: <1996Mar20.095046.4296@wavehh.hanse.de>
Keywords: Linux, Common Lisp
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <roman.827216492@sapir>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 09:50:46 GMT
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roman@sapir.cs.nyu.edu (Roman Yangarber) writes:

>I'm looking for a complete distribution of Common Lisp that runs under
>Linux.  The requirements are that it should be:
>* fast,
>* as nearly X3J13 compliant as possible,
>* work with CLX.

I am afraid you have to try by yourself. All free Common Lisp
implementations have strengths and weaknesses.

You may start with clisp and gcl. I feel clisp is more comfortable
(commandline-editing, ready-to-run-packages like clx and garnet), but
gcl's compiled code is generally faster. I did not compare their ANSI
compatiblity, but the READMEs wake the impression that gcl is more
agressively moving towards ANSI CL.

Martin
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