Happy Christmas#

Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:50:10 +0000

Happy Christmas. Mine was, anyway.

Today I went to the AGM of the SBCL Development Team (UK Chapter). Or, put another way, I had lunch with Christophe, and we divided the universe between us.

So we talked about what we were planning and/or hoping to do this year. All being well, you can look forward to

• Native threads
• Better CLOS integration. Faster CLOS too, perhaps.
• Generational GC on non-x86 ports
• A de-facto standard for contrib software packaging
• More ports, possibly: OSX (because it's popular) or HPUX (because it would help prove the HPPA backend is OK)
• "Linkage Tables" port from CMUCL: basically, the ability to dump a core image with foreign code in it
• "State of the Implementation" - an overview paper
• XREF port from CMUCL: better introspection in an image ("where is this defined", "who calls it", etc)

Other possibilities - these are less likely to happen without external contributions ("we're taking patches") or funding. Or a miracle might happen, even.

• 64 bit port
• ARM port
• Unicode support

Happy New Year ...