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Re: Resources to learn common lisp?

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:22:53 -0400, Alan Bawden wrote:
>
< > Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
< >
< >> Lisp is purely garbage-collected though, isn’t it? Languages like
< >> Perl and Python try for a hybrid
< >> reference-counted/garbage-collected approach, for speed and also
< >> more deterministic memory usage in many common scenarios.
< >
< > I don't think any of Common Lisp, Java, Perl or Python promise to
< > employ any particular algorithm for collecting garbage. It's not
< > something you really need to put in your language specification
< > document.
>
> It does have some subtle, but far-reaching, implications for language
> usage, though.
>
> For example, pure GC makes it easy to support multithreading.

!!? Ummm ??!


But the
> downside is that it is easy for a single long-running program to
> consume all available memory, even if its memory needs at any
> particular moment are not that great. So you need to put arbitrary
> constraints on its heap size.




> And if turns it that wasn’t enough for a
> particular run, then you need to stop and re-run with a larger heap
> allocation. Which defeats some of the point of dynamic memory
> allocation when you have to micromanage such things, doesn’t it?

> This is why both Perl and Python stuck with the hybrid approach. In
> Perl’s case, they kind of fudged their approach to multithreading as a
> consequence, with implications for sharing objects across threads.

with all due respect, garbage collection is very difficult. Most
programmers will use the best algorithm available; like guile does. PERL
is the fastest interpreter I have ever used, compiling the code to C
results in slower running speed. There is an issue with heap...

> While the Python folks have put a lot of effort [...]

there is no perfect solution; python can be compiled with LTO, I don't
have the numbers on me...

from what I understand this is a new method.

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