GCL

GCL - Compiler and interpreter for Common Lisp

GCL is a Compiler and interpreter for Common Lisp. It compiles to C and then uses the native optimizing C compiler (e.g., GCC), giving great portability. It is highly efficient: a function call is basically the same speed as a C function call, in fact identical to a C function call via a pointer.

The program has a source level Lisp debugger (dbl) for interpreted code, letting you step a line at a time, while displaying your position in an Emacs window. It has pioneered conservative Garbage Collection schemes, but also has the stratified garbage collection (SGC) scheme, for only recent allocations, that is based on native page fault handling.

There is also a built in interface to Tk widget system. Allows a mixture of tcl and common lisp to be used in a user interface--your choice which you use.

Obtaining

Web page http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gcl/
Source tarball http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcl/gcl-2.6.2.tar.gz
Source information http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcl/
Version 2.6.2 (stable) released on 2004-06-26

Licensed under LGPL.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide included

Support contacts

Developer List

<gcl-devel@gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

Project contacts

Maintainers	Camm Maguire <camm@enhanced.com>
Contributors	Bill Schelter See also the file doc/contributors in the distribution for a complete list
Sponsors	University of Texas

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anoncvs@subversion.gnu.org:/cvsroot:/gcl http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=gcl
Interfaces	command line
Programs	dbl
Source languages	C, Lisp
Related programs	CLISP, CMUCL

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-26
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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