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0 pointsaidenn08y ago0 comments

For a lot of my projects I use SBCL. The runtime for SBCL is 50MB. That would be a deal breaker for me in 1995, but it is a reasonable tradeoff for the increased productivity I get from it compared to slimmer runtimes.

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arghwhat8y ago

Huh, I very rarely hear about people using Common Lisp these days. Or Lisp at all, outside of Emacs Lisp (stories of Emacs Lisp often being tied to their nasty core dump hack).

What are your reasons for sticking to Common Lisp?

50MB "runtime" sounds quite extreme, even in this day and age. That's 2.5x the consumption of a fresh Node.js instance on my machine. :/

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arghwhat8y ago

Huh, I very rarely hear about people using Common Lisp these days. Or Lisp at all, outside of Emacs Lisp (stories of Emacs Lisp often being tied to their nasty core dump hack).

What are your reasons for sticking to Common Lisp?

50MB "runtime" sounds quite extreme, even in this day and age. That's 2.5x the consumption of a fresh Node.js instance on my machine. :/

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse