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Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)
-Jan 23, 2018
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Embeddable Common Lisp
-Feb 9, 2016
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Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)

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Free Open Source Software

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Parts of SBCL are licensed under a BSD-Style license. The rest are in the public domain.
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Fast native code compiler

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SBCL (and CMUCL)'s compiler, Python, produces optimized native code.
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Type inference and type checking

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Incorrect type declarations are treated as errors. SBCL can deduce types quite well.
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Confusing error messages

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Produces large binaries

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Embeddable Common Lisp

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Compiles to C

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Your code can run (almost) anywhere C can. It is easy to interface with existing C programs.
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