Subject: Re: Lisp io performance.
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/01/19
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3125772516115479@naggum.no>

* Jeff Sandys <Jeffrey.P.Sandys@NOboeingSPAM.com>
| Why not just issue a shell command?

  calling out to a Unix process suspends the entire Allegro CL process.
  this is not good for multiprocessing.

#:Erik
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