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Subject: Re: Squeezing more speed out of LISP.
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In article <Cy0GnM.2AG@rheged.dircon.co.uk>
           simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk "Simon Brooke" writes:

> Hr'hhm. I suspect that, in the near future at least, a lot of serious
> computer science students (and many professionals at home) will
> '...only have access to 486s running Linux...'. Linux is a very good
> system, and cheap :-} The feeling that CMU is the best non-commercial
> CL around seems widespread, too.

Does this suggest that porting CMU CL to Linux on the x86 would
be a good move? It sounds like it to me, but then, here I am stuck
with a 386 for the next few years! So I would say that, wouldn't I?
 
> Has anybody enough knowledge of the CMU source to have a feel of how
> difficult this would be to port to Linux? Is this something that,
> perhaps, a group of us could get together on over the net? It seems to
> me that the goal might well be worth achieveing. If enough people mail
> me on this I shall work out what it takes to set up a mailing list.

If I were running Linux right now, I'd volenteer, even tho I've no
experience with CMU CL at all. That's how keen I am. ;-) At the very
least, I'd want to be a beta tester. Perhaps in a year?

Martin Rodgers
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