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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by tgbugs on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:34PM (#28334486)
This is not accurate. The SBCL runtime and GC are written in C because there are better tools in C for debugging the kinds of errors that one encounters at that level of the system. I can't find the note in the SBCL source repo but if you dig around a bit you will find it.
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by pjmlp on Saturday August 28, 2021 @10:10AM (#28338207)
Which is anyway just one implementation.

Many tend to mix the choice of implementation language, with other criteria that the authors cared more about.

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