[clpython-devel] CMUCL now also supported

[Willem Broekema]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jason Nielsen <jdn at math.carleton.ca> wrote:
> Great work!  The only implementation that I can think of that might be
> useful (to me) is ecl but it isn't a major request as I primarily use
> sbcl.

Okay, I'll wait until there is demand for it.

> Any hint of what the next steps for clpython are?  Just curious ;-)!

A few things that play:

 - Getting the shootout benchmark running
<http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/>. The result of the tests that can
be run is that CLPython performance is not bad, but CPython is on
average a bit faster.

 - Running Sympy, a big pure-Python project, to show language
completeness. Attempting this lead already to many small fixes and
conversion of required Python standard library files.

 - A future goal is to have an Emacs IDE for Python based on Slime. In
particular I'd like to have a great debugger for stepping through
Python code. If anyone has good ideas or wishes for this, let me know.

- Willem