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Re:A Tour of Lisps by LispSporks22 on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:57PM (#39184473)
I know of one company that dumped its clojure code base because lambda costs were too high. They even experimented with graal as a fix.
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Re:A Tour of Lisps by whalesalad on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:25PM (#39184724)
I would have dumped lambda as a runtime before dumping the codebase. Obviously we don't know the full story but that sounds a lil silly to me.

Plus lambda's will stay alive for quite a while if they are in use. So startup time is felt once, but then would be identical to any other language or runtime.

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