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- From: ralex@tigger.cs.colorado.edu (Repenning Alexander)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: MCL support for MOP
- Message-ID: <199301080448.AA02879@tigger.cs.colorado.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 04:48:41 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
- Lines: 29
- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair) writes:
-
- > Adding more MOP support to MCL is on my list of
- > things to do, but it's not very near the top of the list so I'm not
- > likely to do it soon.
-
- I wonder how high the need for MOP support is on the list of typical
- MCL users. Some users are worried about the lack of MCL/MOP features.
- Others, however, (including me) don't really use MOP and, therefore,
- are worried about making trade offs regarding performance and/or
- memory.
-
- Questions:
-
- - what impacts would a full MOP implementation have to MCL in terms of
- performance or memory?
-
- - could a full MOP implementation be packaged into a separate module
- (sort of like PCL minus MCL)
-
- One of the many nice things about MCL is its size compared to other
- Common Lisp implementations. It allows developers to create
- applications able to run on low-end machines. However, If more and
- more functionality is creeping into MCL (maybe partly due to the
- ANSIfication of the Common Lisp clean up process) I wonder how much
- longer this is going to be true.
-
-
- Alex Repenning
-