Call for Comments: The New Allegro CL Streams Design

Location:

 http://www.franz.com/support/docs/simple-stream.htm

Please respond to <franz.com, at bugs> with the subject line:
  Comments on streams design

We at Franz, Inc. are pleased to make our new simple-streams
design available to the public for review and comment.  Whether you
are a customer or a competitor, we are interested in what you
think of this document, good or bad.  Comments may be made
toward any aspect of the design that you wish, including its
applicability to general CL implementation.  With that in mind,
please note that the document itself has a large amount of
Allegro CL specific wording, and is thus probably not appropriate
for non-Franz Common Lisps.  However, the intention of the
document is to promulgate implementation-independent concepts,
and the basic design should be portable.

The design is known to work in the Allegro CL implementation,
in a version that will become 6.0 but which is not quite ready
for beta testing.

We may answer mail that comes in, depending on its nature,
but please don't count on us answering all such mail.  In
particular, we will _not_ answer the following questions
beyond the comments given here:

Questions we will not comment on:

 - When will 6.0 be released?   The general answer is "Sometime this
year."  However, the technical staff will not give a more
specific answer than that.

 - How fast is it?   Other than preliminary timings and
optimizations, which indicate that the design meets our own
performance goals, we have not done thorough optimization on
the implementation, and thus do not yet have any numbers to
offer you.  We may have such numbers in the future.

Enjoy.

Duane Rettig          Franz Inc.            http://www.franz.com/ (www)
1995 University Ave Suite 275  Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 548-3600; FAX: (510) 548-8253   <Franz.COM at duane> (internet)