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Re: GUI

>>>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:

    Bruno> [Message forwarded from Marcus G. Daniels
    Bruno> <marcusd@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu>.]
    Bruno> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bruno> 

    BH> Can anyone comment on these packages, or on my comments?

    Bruno> Or perhaps a Common Lisp interface to a Java-based GUI..

        Ugh.. I think that's a bad idea! Java is awfuly slow and
awfuly huge. Java VM eats memory like crazy. LISP is by itself not
very fast and not very compact. With Java, it would require a Cray in
order do show a plain hello world window.

        Regards,

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