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diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm index a2e0f0724d..4de4e9f9d6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ high-level, object-oriented functional programming language. CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, and much more.") (license license:gpl2+))) +;; NOTE: SBCL 2.0.6 breaks named-readtables and consequently many Common Lisp packages. +;; See https://github.com/melisgl/named-readtables/issues/19. (define-public sbcl (package (name "sbcl") @@ -397,12 +399,13 @@ an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, and much more.") ;; ABCL and ECL (as well as CCL, CMUCL, CLISP and SBCL itself) ;; ;; CCL is not bootstrappable so it won't do. CLISP 2.49 seems to work. - ;; ECL too. ECL builds SBCL about 20% slower than CLISP. As of - ;; 2019-09-05, ECL was last updated in 2020 while CLISP was last updated - ;; in 2010. + ;; ECL too. As of 2020-07-01, ECL was last updated in 2020 while CLISP + ;; was last updated in 2010, and both take about the same time to build SBCL. ;; - ;; For now we stick to CLISP for all systems. We keep the `match' here to - ;; make it easier to change the host compiler for various architectures. + ;; For now we stick to CLISP for all systems. We keep the `match' here + ;; to make it easier to change the host compiler for various + ;; architectures. Consider switching to ECL if it gets faster than CLISP + ;; (maybe post 2020 release). `(,@(match (%current-system) ((or "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux") `(("clisp" ,clisp))) |