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V8 vs Racket: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=v8&lang2=racket&data=u64 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/bench

• Crito 13y ago
  Yeah, but I've basically never seen anybody suggest that Racket is a great language for prod.
  • zhemao 13y ago
    Naughty Dog has used Racket as a scripting language in several of their video games for the PS3.
    • ANTSANTS 13y ago
      Slightly misleading, they don't actually run Racket on the PS3. IIRC, they created a DSL for game logic in Racket and wrote a special compiler for that DSL. That's still a good example of a "real" program written in Racket, but it doesn't prove that Racket is a good choice for programs that need all the resources they can get.
      • zhemao 13y ago
        Ah, I didn't realize that. Very interesting.
  • zhemao 13y ago
    Also, Hacker News is written in Arc, which runs on the Racket runtime. It handles quite a bit of traffic every day. It's an ugly-ass buggy website, but that is largely to do with the implementation and PG's propensity for live-modifying production sites in the REPL and not the runtime itself.
• minikomi 13y ago
  Not sure what you're saying with this? That they're fairly equivalent except when you need heavy regex jiggling?