SBCL 0.8.3 released [LWN.net]

From:		Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>
To:		Lisp News for LWN <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject:		SBCL 0.8.3 released
Date:		Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:31:07 +0200

Version 0.8.3 of SBCL has been released. This version, which now also
builds on MacOS X, features new optimizations, improved compiler
validation, support for automatic dowload and installation of code
from CCLAN, the SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD function and the usual bug
fixes.

SBCL (Steel Bank Common Lisp) is a Common Lisp implementation
originally forked from CMUCL (CMU Common Lisp) which puts a greater
emphasis on maintainability. SBCL runs under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
and Tru64 on x86, MacOS X (Darwin on PowerPC), Alpha, MIPS, PPC and
SPARC CPUs.

SBCL
http://sbcl.sourceforge.net

Version 0.8.3 announcement
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce/26


Paolo
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Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>

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Thread support

Posted Sep 4, 2003 13:04 UTC (Thu) by metacircles (guest, #8895) [Link] (1 responses)

Note that the thread support is officially considered "experimental", and work on it continues, but even in this state it's more use than not (stable for a web server tested to ~50 dynamic page requests/second, for example)

Volunteers interested in working on the thread-safety issues that remain in the code are warmly invited to contact the SBCL developers: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sbcl-devel

(Thread support is based on the Linux clone() syscall, so should work identically on 2.4 and 2.6. Gory details of why LinuxThreads is not appropriate available on request)

Thread support

Posted Sep 4, 2003 17:28 UTC (Thu) by donio (guest, #94) [Link]

Which web server is that?

I am trying to get portableaserve work on SBCL but i get hanging threads after a few hundred requests. This could be a problem with portableaserve's SBCL support though. Or my setup :)