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Re:How popular can Lisp documentation be? by gibsonf1 on Sunday May 06, 2007 @05:40PM (#20013)
That is a sweet site. How did you make it? (Just the basic tech infrastructure)
Re:How popular can Lisp documentation be? by abstractbill on Sunday May 06, 2007 @06:00PM (#20017)
Thanks!

I used the Hunchentoot web server, running on SBCL on an Ubuntu server (1GHz Athlon, 1GB ram, residential cable connection).

The data-sources are html files, which are sucked into memory when lispdoc starts up. The various indexes are kept as hash-tables in memory - there's no need for a database since everything fits in ram.

Re:How popular can Lisp documentation be? by gibsonf1 on Sunday May 06, 2007 @07:06PM (#20025)
What is your experience with Hunchentoot so far? It sounds pretty impressive from the specs.
Re:How popular can Lisp documentation be? by abstractbill on Sunday May 06, 2007 @07:27PM (#20028)
Hunchentoot is awesome - very comprehensive and very easy to work with. Web development has never been so easy (before I switched I was using Araneida for most things, and mod_lisp for a few others).

I can't say I've tested it with huge loads, but it's been very stable so far.