Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

Manfred Bergmann introduces Clamiga, a Common Lisp implementation for classic Amigas and MorphOS, with a portable C core and bytecode VM that runs on macOS and Linux. It boots in about 0.5 MB of heap, features a compacting GC, packed byte vectors, precompiled boot FASLs, and an optional m68k JIT that speeds up compute-bound code up to 20x. The project also brings Quicklisp to the Amiga, with several libraries confirmed working.

The full Common Lisp core -- CLOS, conditions, the numeric tower, format, loop -- boots in about 0.5 MB of heap.

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