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1.2 Steel Bank Common Lisp

• http://www.sbcl.org
• SBCL Manual

A branch from CMUCL. "Broadly speaking, SBCL is distinguished from CMU CL by a greater emphasis on maintainability. SBCL does not use an interpreter by default; all expressions are compiled to native code unless the user switches the interpreter on. The SBCL compiler generates fast native code according to a previous version of The Computer Language Benchmarks Game.

SBCL

• Steel Bank Common Lisp⁶
• In doubt, just get SBCL
• Articulate Lisp also recommends SBCL for beginners
• A high performance Common Lisp compiler and runtime system
• provides an interactive environment including a debugger, a statistical profiler, a code coverage tool, and many other extensions
• SBCL 2.0.8 User Manual

• Running and Stopping SBCL