[Openmcl-devel] talk on CCL

Matt, I just watched your talk about CCL at the European Lisp Symposium in 2018. It was very good. I, too, like Common Lisp. I also like the Lisp Machine (which is Zetalisp and not Common Lisp). I used Common Lisp to write a tool for people that are developing ISO 10303 standards. I would compile it using SBCL, Clozure CL, and LispWorks CL (since I had a copy). It was interesting because each Lisp would help show up different issues. We rarely delivered the product using Clozure CL because it would was too slow when running the code. I figured out that the problem was that Clozure CL spent too much time running the GC and I didn't know what options I had for getting it to work better. The SBCL compiled application might take 15 minutes to run, but the Clozure CL compiled application would take at least 30 minutes. Some tasks I set my application to would take several hours (sometimes days) with Clozure CL. On a lighter note, one of the guys at Boeing downloaded our source code and compiled the application on ARM64 (I think using SBCL) so that it could run on one of their tablets. It worked flawlessly. The power of Common Lisp. One of the other users was using a Mac so he would compile it for the Mac. We had versions of the app compiled on Linux, Windows, and the Mac. Common Lisp allowed us to deliver on multiple platforms using a single copy of the source. The application is called Express Engine and is hosted on SourceForge.net at https://sourceforge.net/projects/exp-engine/ I'm still working on the CLIM to run on Clozure CL. I got it to compile, but it only has the CLX backend, so it needs an X11 server to display. I can run it on Linux, but it still needs some work. Some of the buttons are unreadable. Since Clozure CL has examples for GTK2, Cocoa, and Win32, I thought that Clozure CL might me a good platform to run CLIM using the native toolkits as the backend. Craig On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 17:12 -0700, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: > I was invited to give a talk at this year’s European Lisp Symposium > in Marbella, Spain. It was a great conference. I highly recommend > that you try to attend next the next one if you possibly can. It > will be in Genoa, Italy. See https://european-lisp-symposium.org. > > Anyway, I prepared a web site that contains a video of the talk and > also a written transcript with slides included in the text in the > appropriate places. > > The link is http://thisoldlisp.com/talks/els-2018/ > > It’s not really very technical in nature (it’s meant to be > entertaining and encouraging), but maybe some of you would enjoy it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmcl-devel mailing list > Openmcl-devel at clozure.com > https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel