Running Lisp in Production
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Running Lisp in Production
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Re: Running Lisp in Production
#2Very informative. Thank you.
Anyone here has any experience with the GCs of Allegro or LispWorks or any other commercial Lisp implementations?
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#3This was fantastic. Thank you.
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#5Awesome stuff. Articles like this are what we Lispers/Schemers need to show that our languages can be used for "real work"(tm).
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#6Is it worthwhile to explore Clojure for web-dev seriously or more as a toy?
Re: Running Lisp in Production
#7Very informative. Thank you. Anyone here has any experience with the GCs of Allegro or LispWorks or any other commercial Lisp implementations?
I've worked a lot with LispWorks and tuning the gc had the same method of programmatically calling a full GC after every N operations. We also found setting the gc threshold to high amount helped a bunch.
Supposedly they have a concurrent GC in the works but I haven't played with it.
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#8Is it worthwhile to explore Clojure for web-dev seriously or more as a toy?
Seriously. I have my misgivings with Clojure in comparison to other Lisps, but it's a serious programming language.
Re: Running Lisp in Production
#9Is it worthwhile to explore Clojure for web-dev seriously or more as a toy?
It's extremely serious.
The deployment is the very well understood JVM and standard web servers. There's a common HTTP middleware framework (Ring), lots of choices for HTML generation and ClojureScript allows some code-sharing with your client side (compiles to JS).
On the back-end, you could use any Java library. On the front-end, you could use any JS framework (e.g. see https://github.com/omcljs/om)
Re: Running Lisp in Production
#10Very informative. Thank you. Anyone here has any experience with the GCs of Allegro or LispWorks or any other commercial Lisp implementations?
LispWorks has a lot of features in its GC. Years ago it was used in a demanding telco application, an ATM switch. It was also used on a space mission experiment. Generally the runtime is very very nice.
Franz Inc uses Allegro CL in a large database. They tuned the GC quite a bit for that. But there were also other GC demanding applications on Allegro CL, for example in CAD and 3D design. They are now working on a concurrent GC, something which is still rare in the Lisp world.