1.1 CMU Common Lisp
NOTE: CMUCL does not appear to run on modern Mac systems as it is 32bit only.
CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp programming
language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It mainly conforms to the
ANSI Common Lisp standard. CMUCL provides:
- a sophisticated native code compiler;
- a powerful foreign function interface;
- an implementation of CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System; which includes
multimethods;
- a metaobject protocol;
- a source-level debugger and code profiler; and
- an Emacs-like editor implemented in Common Lisp.
Summary of Main Features
- Support for static arrays that are never moved by GC but are properly removed
when no longer referenced.
- Unicode support, including many of the most common external formats such as
UTF-8 and support for handling Unix, DOS, and Mac end-of-line schemes.
- native double-double floats including complex double-double floats and
specialized arrays for double-double floats and and complex double-double
floats that give approximately 106 bits (32 digits) of precision.
- a sophisticated native-code compiler which is capable of powerful type
inferences, and generates code competitive in speed with C compilers.
- generational garbage collection and multiprocessing capability on the x86
ports.
- a foreign function interface which allows interfacing with C code and system
libraries, including shared libraries on most platforms, and direct access to
Unix system calls.
- support for interprocess communication and remote procedure calls.
- an implementation of CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System, which includes
multimethods and a metaobject protocol.
- a graphical source-level debugger using a Motif interface, and a code
profiler.
- an interface to the X11 Window System (CLX), and a sophisticated graphical
widget library (Garnet).
- programmer-extensible input and output streams.
- an Emacs-like editor implemented in Common Lisp.
- freely redistributable