Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

Fun fact I learned from a Func Prog podcast: the name Steel Bank is a play on it's origin as Carnegie-Mellon Common Lisp (Carnegie made his fortune in Steel, while Mellon did so with Banks):

https://www.sbcl.org/history.html

Steel Bank Common Lisp is what Hacker News uses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006

I discovered this while doing some research for a post the other day: https://vale.rocks/posts/hacker-news

    * the SB-SIMD contrib now supports ARM64. (Thanks to Sylvia Harrington)
    * AVX512 instructions are now supported on X86-64. (Thanks to Robert Smith and Arthur Miller)
    * additional support for SIMD instructions on ARM64 and X86-64. (Thanks to Arthur Miller)

If any SBCL dev is here, please add documentation for how to use the memory arena feature. The only doc is an very old proposal document.

I wonder sometimes how the world would look like if lisp won and the unit of deployment was a lisp machine image, if that makes sense. How would a kubernetes optimized for lisp look like? How would AWS EC2 look like? etc.

SB-MANUAL looks great—having the manual available through docstrings and SLIME should make SBCL development much more pleasant.

If memory serves, traditionally, CCL (Clozure Common Lisp [0]) had better support for Windows but SBCL was unbeatable for speed. Is that still the case?

[0] https://ccl.clozure.com/

Great to see the project is still going strong, I kinda want to try CL but I always feel like I don't have a great use-case.

checkout lumbda dot com if you are into lisp / scheme

I'm going pretty deep on Lisp on accident - can anybody give me more context on this?

Great semver number