pkgsrc-wip/ecl/DESCR
Aleksej Saushev c9c623a1f7 Note the possibility of building shared libraries.
Support for most of MOP, object finalizers, weak references,
weak hash tables, and optional thread-local storage.

From Matthew Mondor in private mail.
2012-07-06 01:32:49 +00:00

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ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project is an effort to
modernize Giuseppe Attardi's ECL environment to produce an implementation of
the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the
language.
The current ECL implementation features:
* A bytecodes compiler and interpreter.
* A translator to C.
* An interface to foreign functions.
* A dynamic loader.
* The possibility to build standalone executables and shared libraries.
* The Common-Lisp Object System (CLOS).
* Most of the Meta Object Protocol (MOP).
* Conditions and restarts for handling errors.
* Sockets as ordinary streams.
* The Gnu Multiprecision library for fast bignum operations.
* A simple conservative mark & sweep garbage collector.
* The Boehm-Weiser garbage collector.
* Object finalizers, weak references and weak hash tables.
* Threads using the POSIX threads library (with optional TLS).
* CLX, an X11 client not needing extra X11 libraries.
* Unicode.