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		bridgetroll on May 7, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Looming Lisp Boom? On the topic of SBCL: A few days ago I downloaded SBCL 1.0.13 on my WinXP laptop and have been playing around with it to get back into Lisp. So far its worked to go through some exercises. I'm using Paul's "ANSI Common Lisp" book which I needed for one of my CS programming classes years ago. Last serious Lisp programming I did was at Interleaf, when they were Interleaf, so I've got a lot of cobwebs to brush off. I've got some specific tools I want to implement, so I'll probably run into issues with the incomplete port and if I can carve out the time, have no problem helping out.

Zak on May 8, 2008 [–]

SBCL seems to work pretty well on Windows, but it doesn't have threads on Windows. As far as I know, no Common Lisp has native threads on Windows. I think Allegro and Lispworks have their own threading systems, but can't make use of more than one CPU/core.

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