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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by zelphirkalt on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:59AM (#23165615)
Probably BeamVM, giving you better options for scaling, abstracting away machine borders and lightweight processes.
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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by ethelward on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:26AM (#23166640)
BeamVM is much worse than the JVM in the raw computing performances department.
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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by zelphirkalt on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:58AM (#23167499)
As far as I know, people in the Erlang world tend to use NIFs for computation heavy tasks: http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html However, I have not done that myself, so I cannot tell from experience how that works.
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