Racket Frustrates Me

Re:Racket Frustrates Me by schemescape on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:02PM (#36543020)

Not if you use CLISP! It seems like bytecode vs. native compilation is a large contributor to memory usage (Racket uses Chez Scheme which compiles to native; same story for Node/Deno and V8).

I have a low traffic web service and I wasn't happy with ~125 MB of my 512 MB VM's memory being used up by SBCL, but I was able to just drop in CLISP and memory usage dropped to ~25 MB (and for reference: a "hello world" is under 10 MB with CLISP, similar to Python).

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Re:Racket Frustrates Me by kagevf on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:18PM (#36543934)

I was wondering about this. If you use clisp, are you getting from its main branch, or another more up to date branch, and if so which branch?

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Re:Racket Frustrates Me by schemescape on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:39PM (#36544149)

I just used what my (Linux) distribution packaged for me. I’d think it would be easy to build from source, on Linux at least.

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Re:Racket Frustrates Me by kagevf on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:01PM (#36544394)

The other day on IRC, someone (pjb) mentioned that clisp is the best CL, so now I'm very curious :)

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Re:Racket Frustrates Me by schemescape on Sunday July 02, 2023 @06:47PM (#36566600)

FYI: It doesn't support package-local nicknames :(

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