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He probably means Allegro CL which is in my experience the best one. All the OS Lisp GCs are stuck in the 80s and honestly not very good. The one in LispWorks

He probably means Allegro CL which is in my experience the best one. All the OS Lisp GCs are stuck in the 80s and honestly not very good. The one in LispWorks is pretty good though but I wouldn’t call it state of the art. It just works.

fm2606 2y ago
How does one go about testing how good a GC is or isn't? I'm most interested in SBCL and JVM.
rurban 2y ago
I would call the LispWorks GC also superb, and it's even open source!