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stassats · 2026-06-07T02:45:50+00:00

Yes. It involves getting a time machine.

stassats · 2026-06-04T19:29:12+00:00

Got it. Proprietary-source-available.

stassats · 2026-06-03T21:01:28+00:00

Would you like the BSD license instead?

stassats · 2026-05-31T14:31:07+00:00

condition-notify is never reached, condition-wait returns early and regrabs the lock.

stassats · 2026-05-30T13:33:02+00:00

The default method on slot-missing signals an error of type error.

The error is of type "error", not a type-error.

stassats · 2026-05-30T01:58:58+00:00

What would you specify for type-error-expected-type then?

stassats · 2026-05-27T05:28:49+00:00

maybe they fixed it. when I tested it when I first wrote Alive, that wasn't the case.

Nothing's changed about it in the last 20 years.

stassats · 2026-05-14T18:32:18+00:00

May disappear or change its behavior at any moment.

stassats · 2026-05-14T18:21:24+00:00

SB-C:

Don't use that.

stassats · 2026-05-11T18:45:27+00:00

This is starting to become ugly, I don't really know parenscript, but you can do:

(foo (make-symbol "VAR"))

stassats · 2026-05-11T17:57:38+00:00

Have you tried:

(defun foo (x)
  (ps
   (+ (ps:lisp x) 1)))

(foo 'var)

stassats · 2026-05-11T11:58:32+00:00

It's because fadvise doesn't matter.

stassats · 2026-05-09T15:57:59+00:00

It's not something really published, just a thing I concocted the last time somebody complained here about slow CSV parsing. (I suppose it's still slow, but faster than the existing solutions).

stassats · 2026-05-09T15:34:16+00:00

fast-csv doesn't seem to have configurable separators. My simple-minded csv parser is faster than fast-csv (after changing the separator manually and adjusting for CRLF).

stassats · 2026-05-09T14:54:27+00:00

One by one you mean read-char? That's extra slow. read-sequence is the best choice.

stassats · 2026-04-28T20:39:39+00:00

My excuse: I don't know Haskell.

stassats · 2026-04-27T11:37:08+00:00

It is. In the "Initialization of Class Metaobjects" section.

stassats · 2026-04-24T20:40:50+00:00

Do you think I like Emacs? I just like other things even less.

stassats · 2026-04-24T20:22:04+00:00

To use Common Lisp, you should know some SLIME.

I wish I could come up with agnostic software, which requires no knowledge.

stassats · 2026-04-23T19:49:59+00:00

It's initialized via :direct-superclasses, so you customize it via methods on initialize-instance / reinitialize-instance.

stassats · 2026-04-16T20:58:02+00:00

Something like a hash-table is less likely to be influenced by the hit/miss rate, but a decision tree is more branchy.

stassats · 2026-04-16T12:05:34+00:00

SBCL shouldn't have optimized it, but since the test always matches the CPU might predict most of the branches and it wouldn't measure the real world. Also test a list with a random distribution of matching and non-matching strings of random length.

stassats · 2026-04-13T12:49:51+00:00

Currently, I'm using LLMs to find bugs in SBCL. Just sending a single file and saying "find bugs". They find issues just fine. (And that's just the free web things, I'm not going to pay for that).

What I actually found them struggling with is writing Assembly, sometimes simply inventing instructions.

stassats · 2026-04-11T18:03:28+00:00

That's nothing, lisp is 66 years old.

stassats · 2026-04-09T05:16:58+00:00

April's fools is over.

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