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I've made some test cases using a Java library (sorry but I can't remember it's name) and for small files the speed and memory usage seems better, but the problem comes when the file is large and I think I loose speed reading by byte. This is something you should profile then. It might be the case ...

There are two R4RS implementations in Common Lisp: http://mumble.net/~jar/pseudoscheme/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/scheme/impl/scheme88/0.html (Found at http://www.cliki.net/Scheme - if you know of any others, add them to the Scheme topic on CLiki) You can get a Schem...

FiveAM uses Arnesi, which is a "library" that comes with dozens of unrelated things you don't really want or need (including its own version of SWANK...), and a bunch of implementation-specific dependencies (it won't work on newer versions of Lispworks for example). Fortunately there's EOS...

Looks like "A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" may need some errata. I don't see a list on the author's website.

COMPILE-FILE returns 3 values. According to the CLHS "The tertiary value, failure-p, is false if no conditions of type error or warning (other than style-warning) were detected by the compiler, and true otherwise." SLIME uses this to display a list of errors and prompt you to continue load...

The PORT package of CLOCC has a function to tell if a symbol is a special variable in sys.lisp: (defun variable-special-p (symbol) "Return T if the symbol names a global special variable." #+(and allegro (not (version>= 6))) (clos::variable-special-p symbol nil) #+(and allegro (version>= 6...

ECL and CLISP let you make compact executables (tutorial for CLISP: http://code.google.com/p/lispbuilder/wiki/StandAloneCLISP , it also lets you run .fas compiled files as programs: http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/impnotes/quickstart.html ). There is lispx-proxy , which makes program distributions...

qbg wrote:I believe I remember reading on comp.lang.lisp that an old version of Haskell ran on CMUCL.

That's the Yale Haskell compiler. You can still find the sources in the CMU AI repository:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai ... x/haskell/