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Lucid was founded in 1984, the same year work started on Coral Common Lisp, which became MCL. The Spice Lisp rewrite to run on stock hardware, leading to CMUCL
by pfdietz 2y ago
Lucid was founded in 1984, the same year work started on Coral Common Lisp, which became MCL. The Spice Lisp rewrite to run on stock hardware, leading to CMUCL, started in 1985.
I get the impression that using the MMU to record dirtied pages has fallen out of fashion, being less performant than manual card marking. I haven't kept close tabs on what SBCL is doing there, but there's been a lot of work on it.
I fully agree about modern computing needs diverging from what Lisp has been aimed at. In particular, array-oriented representations seem better than linked representations.