1 ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project is an effort to
2 modernize Giuseppe Attardi's ECL environment to produce an implementation of
3 the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the
6 The current ECL implementation features:
7 * A bytecodes compiler and interpreter.
9 * An interface to foreign functions.
11 * The possibility to build standalone executables.
12 * The Common-Lisp Object System (CLOS).
13 * Conditions and restarts for handling errors.
14 * Sockets as ordinary streams.
15 * The Gnu Multiprecision library for fast bignum operations.
16 * A simple conservative mark & sweep garbage collector.
17 * The Boehm-Weiser garbage collector.
18 * Threads using the POSIX threads library.
19 * CLX, an X11 client not needing extra X11 libraries.