I recently transfered a large AI agent program from Harlequin
Lispworks on the DEC Alpha to Lispworks for Windows on a Pentium II
running Windows/NT. The Unix Lispworks was quite reliable, but I am
getting frequent freezes with Lispworks for Windows. The freezes seem
related to the use of multiple processes. I have, incidently, loaded
the lastest patches from the Harlequin ftp site. By freezes I mean a
state of the system in which Lisp does not respond and nothing is
happening, and the only solution is to kill the Lispworks process.
Earlier I was also seeing Lispworks throw up a blank DOS screen and
then die.
Is anyone else seeing flakey behavior with Lispworks for Windows
under NT? Any opinions on whether it might be worth switching to
Windows 95 instead?
Steven Vere
On 30 Nov 1998 20:44:11 GMT, ····@ix.netcom.com(Steven Vere) claimed
or asked:
% Is anyone else seeing flakey behavior with Lispworks for Windows
% under NT? Any opinions on whether it might be worth switching to
% Windows 95 instead?
While I know nothing about Lispworks, I am pretty sure that you will
have far less stability under Windows 95 than you have under NT.
You might try to see if your program will work with Corman Lisp. It
is supposed to be a CL implementation. I don't know what windows
specific stuff will be like to port. May be a complete re-write?
I still haven't unpacked my Corman Lisp yet, so perhaps I shouldn't be
recommending it except that others here said they liked it.
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David Steuber "The Interloper" wrote in message
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>I still haven't unpacked my Corman Lisp yet, so perhaps I shouldn't be
>recommending it except that others here said they liked it.
I've looked at it and I also like it. Nice, small, easy to get up and
running and simple to use:
http://www.corman.net/CormanLisp.html
Chris.
From: Reini Urban
Subject: Re: Lispworks for Windows freezes
Date:
Message-ID: <36653165.6044080@judy>
>On 30 Nov 1998 20:44:11 GMT, ····@ix.netcom.com(Steven Vere) claimed
>or asked:
>>The freezes seem elated to the use of multiple processes.
········@david-steuber.com (David Steuber "The Interloper") wrote:
>You might try to see if your program will work with Corman Lisp. It
>is supposed to be a CL implementation. I don't know what windows
>specific stuff will be like to port. May be a complete re-write?
>
>I still haven't unpacked my Corman Lisp yet, so perhaps I shouldn't be
>recommending it except that others here said they liked it.
well, corman lisp is also not fully thread safe yet. the kernel is but
not all of the cl library functions yet. roger corman told me that this
is his primary issue to fix.
but i'll definitely give it a try. it's much faster and has an easier
win32 interface.
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Reini