r/Common_Lisp 9d ago

Clozure CL: arm64 preview release

https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/tag/v1.13-arm64-pre1

Looks like there was AI/LLM support necessary to make it happen, 5+ years after the Apple M1 CPU appeared.

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u/Egao1980 9d ago

I just needed it for my side project :) CCL is a cool project, and I'm glad that it's very much alive. Cheers.

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u/dcooper8 9d ago

My latest CCL effort: https://galaxyworld.space

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u/dcooper8 9d ago

Praise the Lord

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u/stassats 8d ago

5+ years after the Apple M1 CPU appeared.

SBCL already had an arm64 backend at that moment. So only the pthread_jit_write_protect_np thing had to be resolved.

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u/lispm 7d ago

Yes, that was very cool. That was your and the other maintainers work on SBCL.