Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
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Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
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Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#2What's the state of development of this? Did somebody use it with Raspberry pi? I want to use this over Clojure(only on pi) because I have read Clojure is slow on Raspberry pi(even 3, not sure how true that is).
Also, how fast is this? How does it compare to other lisps(or schemes) in terms of speed? Can someone port the benchmarks to https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org.
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#3What's the state of development of this? Did somebody use it with Raspberry pi? I want to use this over Clojure(only on pi) because I have read Clojure is slow on Raspberry pi(even 3, not sure how true that is). Also, how fast is this? How does it compare to other lisps(or schemes) in terms of speed? Can someone port the benchmarks to https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org .
I have used Chicken Scheme on Raspberry Pi to good effect. Clojure is likely slow because the JVM runtime requires much more disk access than compiled-to-C systems.
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#4What's the state of development of this? Did somebody use it with Raspberry pi? I want to use this over Clojure(only on pi) because I have read Clojure is slow on Raspberry pi(even 3, not sure how true that is). Also, how fast is this? How does it compare to other lisps(or schemes) in terms of speed? Can someone port the benchmarks to https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org .
I have used Chicken Scheme on Raspberry Pi to good effect. Clojure is likely slow because the JVM runtime requires much more disk access than compiled-to-C systems.
Have you tried any Clojure->Scheme compilers? After that stage you can use any Scheme->C/Whatever compiler.
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#5> If you like Clojure, but are unhappy with the start-up time, or if you want something outside of the JVM ecosystem, then Pixie may be for you
YES! :D
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#6> If you like Clojure, but are unhappy with the start-up time, or if you want something outside of the JVM ecosystem, then Pixie may be for you YES! :D
It sounds nice right?
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have used Chicken Scheme on Raspberry Pi to good effect. Clojure is likely slow because the JVM runtime requires much more disk access than compiled-to-C systems.
Have you tried any Clojure->Scheme compilers? After that stage you can use any Scheme->C/Whatever compiler.
There are Clojure->Scheme compilers?
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#8What's the state of development of this? Did somebody use it with Raspberry pi? I want to use this over Clojure(only on pi) because I have read Clojure is slow on Raspberry pi(even 3, not sure how true that is). Also, how fast is this? How does it compare to other lisps(or schemes) in terms of speed? Can someone port the benchmarks to https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org .
I posted the link, but am not one of the developers. This got a little attention a couple of years ago, and I thought to look it up today. It has a nice website now at least. I really like the idea behind it (small install, lightweight, fast), but don't know how effective it will be without a larger community. I can honestly do without a lot of libraries as long as there are decent built-ins.
I really wish Pixie just had a REPL and compiled to native code via LLVM so I could give coworkers a .exe.
Edit:
Just looked at the github page. It doesn't look very active to me although I wouldn't say dead. The only small lisps I know of in development are Picolisp and Newlisp.
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#9> If you like Clojure, but are unhappy with the start-up time, or if you want something outside of the JVM ecosystem, then Pixie may be for you YES! :D
In that case... what about just regular plain old Common Lisp?
Re: Pixie – A small, fast, native Lisp
#10Very neat but documentation is very sparse, from what I can tell.