Re: Shrinking the C core

[Gerd Möllmann]

> Okay, but here it isn't about joining the CL standard, it is
> the situation that we have "the Lisp editor" yet our Lisp is
> much slower than other people's Lisp, and for no good reason
> what I can understand as Emacs is C, and SBCL is C. What's the
> difference, why is one so much faster than the other?

Just wanted to mention that SBCL is not implemented in C.  It only has a 
small C runtime containing various GC alternatives and hardware/OS 
dependent stuff.  The rest is Lisp, including bignums and compiler.