New CVS CLISP offers 4GB heaps/images and full MOP support
Wednesday, December 1, 2004
The
CLISP maintainers have
announced a "pre-pretest" version of CLISP that supports heap
sizes and memory images greater than 4 gigabytes on 64-bit CPU's. To date, only
Scieneer CL and
Allegro CL have this capability (although a number of other CL
implementors are working on 64-bit support too).
In addition, they
cite "full MOP support (more complete than in any other
implementation)" as one of the features of this pre-release version
of CLISP.
Pascal Costanza (whose
AspectL library makes heavy use of MOP features)
commented that "I have had the pleasure to try out the MOP (in order to support it in
future versions of AspectL), and this claim seems to be true from what I
can tell so far!".
The full list of new features and changes is
here. The developers have indicated that they would like to have people test the new functionality and submit
bug reports and patches.
Congratulations to the CLISP developers and I'm sure a
lot of people will look forward to using this new functionality when
it comes out in the next release!
