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Release of LispWorks 6.0 with SMP
- hapless 17y agoI find it interesting that Solaris x64 is lumped with Linux/OSX/FreeBSD, not listed under "Lispworks for UNIX." It has a richer featureset than the SPARC port, too.
- jwr 17y agoI'd say "finally!". CL is getting left behind by languages like Clojure because there is no consistent SMP story. I wonder what Franz's response will be, I remember discussing SMP with them a couple of years ago (as a paid customer in a support call) and hearing that it's a very complex issue and no date can be provided. They recommended running several VMs communicating over TCP/IP, which wasn't really a solution at all.
- smanek 17y agoWhy were threads inadequate? (There's no GIL in most implementations, IIRC).