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It's not really written in Common Lisp. "built on top of libev" The lisp part is a thin ffi wrapper on top of lots of C code. Not than an ffi wrapper around

by kjksf 12y ago

It's not really written in Common Lisp. "built on top of libev" The lisp part is a thin ffi wrapper on top of lots of C code. Not than an ffi wrapper around C code isn't useful, but it's C code that does all the heavy lifting there.

sanxiyn 12y ago
Indeed, Node.js is a thin FFI wrapper on top of lots of C (and C++) code that does all the heavy lifting, but it is still useful. I think Woo is useful the same way.
- aikah 12y ago
  the title implies "the heavy lifting" is written in LISP. Every node user knows the net lib nodejs uses isnt written in javascript.And most also know that in order for node to be useful,scripts should do as little as possible and delegate any serious operation to C/C++.
  - eudox 12y ago
    >the title implies "the heavy lifting" is written in LISP. Woo uses fast-http[0], quri[1], and http-body[2], all written in pure Common Lisp and very, very fast. [0]: https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http [1]: https://github.com/fukamachi/quri https://github.com/fukamachi/quri [2]: https://github.com/fukamachi/http-body https://github.com/fukamachi/http-body
sanxiyn 12y ago
Also note that HTTP parsing is done completely in Common Lisp, not in C. Woo uses fast-http, which is by the same author. https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http
sedachv 12y ago
And libev is a C wrapper around epoll and other system calls. There's not much code needed to use epoll directly, that's what John Fremlin's TPD2 web server (the previous "world's fastest Common Lisp web server") did: https://github.com/vii/teepeedee2/blob/master/src/io/epoll.lisp https://github.com/vii/teepeedee2/blob/master/src/io/epoll.l... What libev provides is a very portable wrapper around all the different non-blocking IO system calls in all the different Unixes. That's the hard part.

by kjksf 12y ago

sanxiyn 12y ago

Indeed, Node.js is a thin FFI wrapper on top of lots of C (and C++) code that does all the heavy lifting, but it is still useful. I think Woo is useful the same way.

aikah 12y ago
the title implies "the heavy lifting" is written in LISP. Every node user knows the net lib nodejs uses isnt written in javascript.And most also know that in order for node to be useful,scripts should do as little as possible and delegate any serious operation to C/C++.
- eudox 12y ago
  >the title implies "the heavy lifting" is written in LISP. Woo uses fast-http[0], quri[1], and http-body[2], all written in pure Common Lisp and very, very fast. [0]: https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http [1]: https://github.com/fukamachi/quri https://github.com/fukamachi/quri [2]: https://github.com/fukamachi/http-body https://github.com/fukamachi/http-body

sanxiyn 12y ago

Also note that HTTP parsing is done completely in Common Lisp, not in C. Woo uses fast-http, which is by the same author. https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http

sedachv 12y ago

And libev is a C wrapper around epoll and other system calls. There's not much code needed to use epoll directly, that's what John Fremlin's TPD2 web server (the previous "world's fastest Common Lisp web server") did: https://github.com/vii/teepeedee2/blob/master/src/io/epoll.lisp https://github.com/vii/teepeedee2/blob/master/src/io/epoll.l... What libev provides is a very portable wrapper around all the different non-blocking IO system calls in all the different Unixes. That's the hard part.