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Added hardware requirements section and note about the function type cleanup.

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.\" If you want to use this code or any part of CMU Common Lisp, please contact .\" If you want to use this code or any part of CMU Common Lisp, please contact
.\" Scott Fahlman or slisp-group@cs.cmu.edu. .\" Scott Fahlman or slisp-group@cs.cmu.edu.
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.SH DESCRIPTION .SH DESCRIPTION
CMU Common Lisp is public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming CMU Common Lisp is public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming
environment. It is currently available for Sparcstations and DECstations environment. Many of the X3j13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL.
(pmaxes) running Mach (or OSF/1). We are beta-testing a SunOS SPARC version Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of
and an IBM RT Mach version. either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting
to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro.
Many of the X3j13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever .SH HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLTL1
or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to CMU CL is currently available for Sparcstations and DECstations (pmaxes)
users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. running Mach (or OSF/1). We are beta-testing a SunOS SPARC version and an IBM
RT Mach version. At least 16 megabytes of memory and 25 megabytes of disk
space are recommended. As usual, more is better.
.SH OVERVIEW .SH OVERVIEW
When compared other Common Lisp implementations (such as Allegro), CMU CL has When compared other Common Lisp implementations (such as Allegro), CMU CL has
...@@ -127,6 +130,10 @@ reduced), then the type error may cause obscure errors or infinite looping. ...@@ -127,6 +130,10 @@ reduced), then the type error may cause obscure errors or infinite looping.
See the section `Getting Existing Programs to Run' (6.6) in the compiler See the section `Getting Existing Programs to Run' (6.6) in the compiler
chapter of the user manual. chapter of the user manual.
CMU CL adheres to the X3J13 function type cleanup, which means that quoted
lambda-lists are not of type FUNCTION, and are no longer directly callable.
Use COERCE with the FUNCTION result type.
.SH OPTIMIZATION .SH OPTIMIZATION
Python does many optimizations that are absent or less general in other Python does many optimizations that are absent or less general in other
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