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by kaeland 1088 days ago
I’ve been learning CL in my spare time and had no idea this was possible or even a distinction between CL implementations. Thanks for sharing.
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Most Common Lisp implementations have one or more compilers integrated into it. Most of them are written in itself. Thus, when the implementation provides the source for the compiler, you can explore/change the compiler like any other part of the Lisp code.