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Marius Gerbershagen de5d56b4c6 multithreading: replace various synchronization objects by native mutexes
- Spinlocks have been replaced by ordinary locks. Without access to
  the underyling scheduler, spinlocks provide no performace benefit
  and may even be harmful in case of high contention.
- Synchronization of process creation and exiting has been simplified.
  Instead of a spinlock, a barrier and atomic operations we now use
  only a single lock protecting the shared process state and a
  condition variable for implementing process joins.
- Some locks which were implemented using Lisp objects now directly
  use a native mutex.
- Our own mutex implementation has been removed as it is now unused.
2021-08-29 17:23:20 +02:00
contrib contrib/unicode: improve ucd table generating code 2021-05-07 21:09:08 +02:00
examples more details added, and examples adjusted 2021-06-10 14:33:08 +01:00
msvc multithreading: replace various synchronization objects by native mutexes 2021-08-29 17:23:20 +02:00
src multithreading: replace various synchronization objects by native mutexes 2021-08-29 17:23:20 +02:00
.gitignore cmp: read msvc output in using the correct encoding 2020-08-02 10:55:25 +02:00
.gitlab-ci.yml Add .gitlab-ci.yml 2017-01-11 18:30:33 +00:00
appveyor.yml Add simple appveyor msvc build 2017-05-13 00:12:13 +02:00
CHANGELOG pathnames: handle unicode characters 2021-08-19 14:00:28 +02:00
configure Preserve quoting when passing the arguments to the build directory 2008-08-27 09:50:44 +02:00
COPYING cosmetic: rename LGPL->COPYING 2016-10-08 14:24:31 +02:00
INSTALL config-internal.h: automatically set ECL_C_COMPATIBLE_VARIADIC_DISPATCH for apple/arm64 2021-01-29 19:46:01 +01:00
LICENSE copyright: add Marius to the maintainer list. 2019-02-22 18:43:37 +00:00
Makefile.in doc: set new doc as standard documentation 2019-01-03 19:14:28 +01:00
README.md update readme (typos) 2015-08-31 08:22:52 +00:00

ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.

The term embeddable refers to the fact that ECL includes a Lisp to C compiler, which produces libraries (static or dynamic) that can be called from C programs. Furthermore, ECL can produce standalone executables from Lisp code and can itself be linked to your programs as a shared library. It also features an interpreter for situations when a C compiler isn't available.

ECL supports the operating systems Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (at least v. 9), Microsoft Windows (MSVC, MinGW and Cygwin) and OSX, running on top of the Intel, Sparc, Alpha, ARM and PowerPC processors. Porting to other architectures should be rather easy.