On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, rif wrote:
> > You might want to have a look at Scieneer CL (http://www.scieneer.com). > > > > The company was founded by Douglas Crosher who brought years of > > experiences with the open source CMU Common Lisp implementation and > > who developed some of the key innovations that enable a high > > performance Common Lisp implementation for SMP systems. While working > > on the CMU Common Lisp implementation, Douglas was a key developer in > > the porting of this implementation to the x86 architecture, developed > > a generational garbage collector which is critical for memory > > management in large high performance applications, developed the > > multi-processing support, and contributed to numerous enhancements. > > This looks very very cool, but I talked to them awhile back and it's > very very expensive. If I recall correctly (and I'm not convinced I > do), a single user license is $10K. I'm not saying it isn't worth it > if it's the exact tool that solves your problem, but it's pricey. Yes, but I wonder whether there would be special discounts for academic users. After all, if you want to make something like this a success in industry, you should perhaps see that people can gain experience with the system at university. Even if they offered this for half the price, it would be quite expensive (on the other hand, so is Allegro). Well, I'd love to lay my hands on such a LISP, given that I could use it to redo and considerably push further some of my superstring calculations on that 24 GB RAM graphics workstation my former institute (http://www.aei.mpg.de) wants to buy... -- regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ Thomas Fischbacher - http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf //\ (lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_ (if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU)
