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From: activis@netcom.com (ActiVision)
Subject: Re: MacGambit for PowerMac?
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Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 20:45:55 GMT
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Bake Timmons (timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu) wrote:
: In <activisD9v3p4.2I2@netcom.com> activis@netcom.com (ActiVision) writes:


: >Folks,

: >I'm using MacGambit 2.2 happily on my trusty rusty IIfx at home, but I'd really
: >like for it to be PowerMac native for the sake of my 6100/60AV here at work.

: >Does anyone know whether it's going to go native soon?  If not, I'd gladly
:                                                   ^^^^^
: I'd even settle for "at all?".  The "generic" gambit-2.2 that compiles under
: CW6 functions well as an interpreter.  Just having the Mac interface and the
: "future" construct for the PowerMac would really be great, however.

I'd really like to see MacGambit go native in its entirety.

: >take a stab at doing the PowerPC 604 code generator for the compiler, and
: >porting the runtime also, of course.

: Pardon my ignorance, but would where would the 604 code generation leave
: those of us with 601-based machines?

My plan would be to generate code that would run on 601, 603, 603E, and 604
chips, but optimizations would be with the 604 in mind.

: >Comments, anyone, especially Marc Feeley? :-)

: Many Mac owners say they would not put up with Macs if it weren't for MCL.  I'd venture to say the same thing for (Power?)MacGambit.

I'd venture to say that I wouldn't enjoy doing Common Lisp in anything other
than MCL, and that implies using a Mac.  Luckily, I've been a Mac programmer
far longer than there's been an MCL.  But I tend to agree about MacGambit with
the exception that the garbage collector should really be ephemeral and,
ideally, real-time.

: --
: Bake Timmons, III

: -- "...there's nothing higher, stronger, more wholesome and more useful in life
: than some good memory..." -- Alyosha in Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)

Paul Snively
psnively@activision.com
