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How is clisp better? Isn’t SBCL the most advanced lisp compiler, not just Common Lisp.

I thought clisp was maintained just to keep building Maxima

For a while GCL was the lisp that Maxima was built with. I think it's been SBCL for a while now.

clisp has fewer features and is more stable, making it useful for certain applications

Would you mind expanding on that? What are the "fewer features" that make it more useful than SBCL?

I find SBCL to be highly stable. I haven't used Clisp for many years and I don't think there's been a new release for many years.

Clisp hasn't had a formal release in a long while, but activity on the repo is ongoing.