[Openmcl-devel] Speed, compilers and multi-core processors

[Dorai Sitaram]

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From: Dan Weinreb <dlw at itasoftware.com>

>Has anyone here tried out ABCL (Armed Bear Common Lisp)?  It runs
>on the JVM and is supposed to be Common Lisp.


It's a conventional, no-surprises Common Lisp, very usable, about 6 to 8 times 
slower than SBCL on my smallish programs tex2page and club3.   It might be much
slower for larger applications.  I didn't see much by way of documentation, so I 

don't know if offers any nifty stuff beyond Ansi CL.