Steel Bank Common Lisp is what Hacker News uses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006
I discovered this while doing some research for a post the other day: https://vale.rocks/posts/hacker-news
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006
I discovered this while doing some research for a post the other day: https://vale.rocks/posts/hacker-news
I’m curious: was Arc running Racket BC or CS? I understand it got a big performance boost after switching to Chez Scheme.
dang: It was running BC. I had high hopes for switching to CS because I'd heard the same thing you had, but when I tried it, HN slowed to a crawl. This stuff is so unpredictable.
I can't remember the details, but I recall that Arc was pinned to an older version of Racket and didn't benefit from improvements to BC and then later to CS.
But ... be aware that the Arc interpreter is much more dynamic than Racket, so in general normal Racket programs are more efficient than Arc programs.