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From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.windows.x
Subject: Vastly improved ELI
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Date: 15 Mar 90 19:40:27 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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If you are in the market for a free embeddable, C-callable lisp
interpreter, check out the latest version of ELI.  ELI (the Embedded
Lisp Interpreter) is a part of the Andrew distribution, which in turn is
a part of X11r4.

Previous versions of ELI have been vastly too memory-inefficient to be
generally useful.  However, a recent change to ELI causes the Lisp
interpreter to use orders of magnitude less memory.  For example, a
recent test program caused the *old* ELI to grow to over 5 Megabytes,
while the same test caused the *new* ELI to grow only to 400 Kilobytes!

This fix to ELI will be available in Patch 5 of the Andrew distribution,
coming soon to a newsgroup near you.

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