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This is not accurate. The SBCL runtime and GC are written in C because there are better tools in C for debugging the kinds of errors that one encounters at that
by tgbugs 5y ago
This is not accurate. The SBCL runtime and GC are written in C because there are better tools in C for debugging the kinds of errors that one encounters at that level of the system. I can't find the note in the SBCL source repo but if you dig around a bit you will find it.
- pjmlp 5y agoWhich is anyway just one implementation. Many tend to mix the choice of implementation language, with other criteria that the authors cared more about.