Re: Lisp Garbage Collection

"Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Christophe Rhodes wrote:

I also dispute your premise; both SBCL and CMUCL have been "fully"
ported to windows, and though it is likely that bugs remain in the
port you can test this for yourself in the case of SBCL.

The SBCL ports page (http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/platform-table.html)
claims the Windows port is "in progress". Is that page out of date?

No, not at all, except in as much as the binary linked to there is
four months old (and yet can be used to build a new one). But if you
stop and think a little bit, you don't get any less of a warranty and
so on from the Windows version than you do from any other one.

The linked binary is mostly flagged as "in progress" because it was
incapable of running SBCL's own regression test suite, because not
enough of the infrastructure was working. Although I don't follow the
progress of the Windows work terribly closely, my understanding is
that this is no longer the case: on Windows SBCL runs its test suite
and passes "most" of the tests.

I have it on good authority that the SBCL Windows port (0.9.12),
as it stands, prints a disclaimer on start up which says
"This is an experimental prerelease support of the Windows platform:
use at your own risk. Your Kitten of Death awaits!"

You are talking about a four-month-old version. (Not that that has
changed, mind you, but ignoring four months of work isn't terribly
helpful in this discussion.)

Did they fix the bugs

How do you know that there are bugs?

and forget to remove the disclaimer?

no; it stays flagged as "experimental" until enough people send
success reports that we can feel confident that it doesn't make
anyone's screen explode.

Just curious. I'd like to see a Windows port as much as anybody.

If you actually mean that, you can help out by trying to use it and
reporting problems or the lack of them. (If instead you mean "I'd
like to see a Windows port but not enough to do any work" then by all
means don't do anything.)

Christophe
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