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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by dorfsmay on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:08AM (#18370543)
So execution speed, fair enough.

FWIW, I've been staying away from Clojure because of the JVM. A lot of us are wearing the scars of the JVM battles!

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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:38AM (#18370695)
If you need performance and want to avoid the jvm, there are also lisps like Chez Scheme and various Common Lisp implementations (sbcl, in particular, can produce really well-tuned numerical code).
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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by hjek on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:40PM (#18371433)
... which is why Racket-on-Chez[0] is a really exciting development.

[0]: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.h...

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Re:Ask HN: Companies using Racket? by igouy on Saturday November 03, 2018 @02:30PM (#18371710)
"Keep in mind that the original goal is not to have a faster Racket, but a better-implemented Racket with acceptable performance."
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