Benefits of moving from Python to Common Lisp?

[Paul Rubin]

"Daniel Lakeland" <dlakelan at sil-no.spam-con.com> writes:
> On a similar type of program I worked on in CMUCL it would run plenty fast
> at home on my 233 MHz PII and then when I took it to work and ran it on a
> 400 Mhz Sparq or something like that, it would be a dog.
> 
> Turned out that consing was a big problem, and the x86 had a generational
> collector, whereas the Sparq had a mark-sweep.

CMUCL uses different GC's on different platforms?  Or do you mean you
were using CMUCL on one box and a different CL on the other?