Re: Porting Matlisp?

Raymond Toy <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:28:24 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.matlisp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Neuss <[email protected]> writes:

    Nicolas> Hello,
    Nicolas> I would like to ask how difficult you would consider porting Matlisp to
    Nicolas> other platforms than ACL or CMUCL.  Especially SBCL (and maybe CLISP) are
    Nicolas> interesting for me now.

SBCL should not be hard, but I haven't tried.  Clisp is doable, but
there will be a speed penalty, I think, because you can't directly
access Clisp's internal array layout.  Thus, every matrix operation
will do a copy in and copy out.  But perhaps that's still a win for
Clisp. 

In terms of porting, I think you only need to update the FFI code to
do the right thing for your desired platform.

Ray