New, much faster version of News.YC

Re:New, much faster version of News.YC by jey on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @01:54PM (#11971)

Is arc self-hosting, a bunch of Common Lisp macros, or implemented in some other language? How long until arc is self-hosting? :)

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Re:New, much faster version of News.YC by ecuzzillo on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @02:03PM (#11974)

It's written in mzscheme. I don't know exactly what self-hosting means, but PG did write his own web server, and he said he very much wouldn't want to deal with Reddit-sized traffic, so I expect he runs everything on his own computers.

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Re:New, much faster version of News.YC by nostrademons on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @02:43PM (#11998)

Self hosting = interpreter/compiler for the language written in the language itself.

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Re:New, much faster version of News.YC by pg on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @02:39PM (#11994)

It "compiles" into mzscheme. But the compilation is more like macroexpansion.

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Re:New, much faster version of News.YC by gibsonf1 on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @10:49PM (#12133)

Ok, this truly piques my interest in Scheme. (If only we could get our hands on ARC!.)

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