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[armedbear-devel] Error in 'test.lisp' to create .abcl_completions
by John Pallister 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hello list, I think there's an error in the 'test.lisp' code used to create .abcl_completions at http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/doc/abcl-install-with-java.html . Basically it should start with (defvar symbols nil) or somesuch to avoid an UNBOUND-VARIABLE error. Cheers, John :^P -- John Pallister john(a)johnp.net john(a)synchromesh.com

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[armedbear-devel] Binary release 0.17 (steps to be taken)
by Erik Huelsmann 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

I'm hoping to be able to publish binaries when releasing 0.17. However, I think we're not yet completely ready to do so. We're missing: * Usage descriptions in terms of an INSTALL file, or something similar * Build targets, like we have for the src archives, for abcl-bin-<version>.zip and abcl-bin-<version>.tar.gz * Anything else? As for the archives, I'd like them to contain many of our top-level files (COPYING, README, etc) and instead of the subdirectories, I think it should contain abcl.jar Comments? Bye, Erik.

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[armedbear-devel] Bug: Attempt to GO to a tag whose extent has ended quits ABCL
by Brian Mastenbrook 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

When attempting to GO to a tag whose dynamic extent has ended, ABCL quits and prints the name of the exception used for internally handling GO (org.armedbear.lisp.Go). I see the same behavior in compiled or interpreted code. CL-USER(1): (lisp-implementation-version) "0.16.0" CL-USER(2): (let ((f nil)) (tagbody (setf f (lambda () (go foo))) foo) (funcall f)) org.armedbear.lisp.Go abcl-src-0.16.0 chandler$ -- Brian Mastenbrook brian(a)mastenbrook.net http://brian.mastenbrook.net/

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Re: [armedbear-devel] Using Java Libraries
by Carlos Ungil 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

> Hi folks, > > I'm searching for a (more systematic) documentation (or tutorial) > about how to use Java libraries from ABCL. > > I couldn't find anything else except the examples on > "http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/browser/trunk/abcl/examples/abcl". > > Is there any such tutorial (or documentation) at all? > Any feedback is very much appreciated! > > Regards > Nik Hello, you might want to check jfli-abcl. Jfli, by Rich Hickey (who would later create Clojure), makes it possible to call Java from LispWorks. It was ported to ABCL by Andras Simon. You can I've just noticed you can find a recent (and improved) copy of jfli-abcl (including sample code) from http://github.com/avodonosov/abcl-idea/tree/master/src/abclidea/lisp/jfli-a… My version of the file has a couple of extra things that might be useful. 1) I had to add a case to infer-box-type to be able to call functions with java.lang.Float arguments. (defun infer-box-type (x) (cond ((null x) nil) ((boxed? x) (jobject-class (get-ref x))) ((integerp x) integer.type) ((typep x 'single-float) float.type) ((numberp x) double.type) ........ 2) I think the following change was done by Alex Mizrahi (I took the file from abcl-web). I don't know if it's still required. < `(defclass ,(class-symbol full-class-name) < ,supers ())))))))) --- > `(unless (get ,class-sym :ensured) ;no fwd ref'd classes in abcl > (ensure-java-class ,full-class-name) > (defclass ,(class-symbol full-class-name) > ,supers ()))))))))) I also added a "doto" macro similar to the one in Clojure (http://clojure.org/java_interop#toc15) (defmacro doto (object &body body) `(let ((object ,object)) ,@(loop for form in body collect `(,(first form) object ,@(rest form))) object)) so I can do things like (document.add (doto (pdfptable.new 3) (pdfptable.addCell (doto (pdfpcell.new (paragraph.new "header with colspan 2")) (pdfpcell.setColspan 2))) (pdfptable.addCell "A") (pdfptable.addCell "B"))) Cheers, Carlos

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[armedbear-devel] Optimizing startup time
by Erik Huelsmann 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Yesterday, Alex Muscar and I were chatting about the options and possibilities to use ABCL on GAE. It turns out that ABCL's startup gets triggered more often than we expected: instances of ABCL may get swapped out of memory or mapped to different servers, meaning ABCL needs to load all from scratch. So, we were evaluating what options we have to optimize ABCL's startup time. As always, I want to base such a decision on facts, so I ran the profiler on ABCL's startup yesterday. The conclusion is that ~ 40 to 45% of our startup time is spent in "privateGetDeclaredConstructors()". This is due to loadCompiledFunction calling the class's newInstance() method. That however, is the processing time spent. I'd love to be able to reduce it, but the function body delegates to a C/C++ function which means I can't fully understand its performance characteristics. Now, the other thing might be "I/O waiting time". Although the profiler measures "run time" and "wait time", I'm not sure how to deduce I/O wait time from that, or how to profile I/O times in another way. If there is considerable I/O wait time, we could probably speed up ABCL's startup process without having to drastically change any design decisions. Does anybody have any comments to that? Helpful remarks on how to find out about I/O wait time? Bye, Erik.

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Re: [armedbear-devel] Using named classes for primitives
by Erik Huelsmann 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Alex Muscar <muscar(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been messing around with the code. I've managed to load the fasl, >> but I think we're missing some initializations because I get the >> following error: >> >> ERROR placeholder called with arguments: >> #<UNDEFINED-FUNCTION SYSTEM::ENSURE-AVAILABLE-SYMBOLS {E5F46E}> >> >> Here's a full stack trace: >> >> org.armedbear.lisp.ConditionThrowable: java.lang.Error >> at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitives$70.execute(Primitives.java:1459) > > OT, but not too much: if we used named classes for primitives we could > get more meaningful stack traces (say, JCALL instead of > Primitives$XY). I.e. instead of > > private static final Primitive xyz = new Primitive(...) { ... }; > > we could use > > private static class JCALL extends Primitive { > JCALL(...) { super(...); } > ... > } > private static final Primitive xyz = new JCALL(...); > > a bit more verbose, but worth the effort imho. I think so too. However, there are a few too many of these to start changing them over now. Or does anybody feel like hacking up a perl script to get it done? :-) Bye, Erik.

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[armedbear-devel] abcl on AppEngine
by Alex Muscar 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Here's the first abcl "app" running on Google AppEngine: http://1.latest.abcl-test.appspot.com/hello . It's not much, but it's a start ;). -- All the best, Alex Muscar

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[armedbear-devel] Using Java Libraries
by nitralime 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi folks, I'm searching for a (more systematic) documentation (or tutorial) about how to use Java libraries from ABCL. I couldn't find anything else except the examples on "http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/browser/trunk/abcl/examples/abcl". Is there any such tutorial (or documentation) at all? Any feedback is very much appreciated! Regards Nik

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[armedbear-devel] Google AppEngine
by Alex Muscar 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hi, I've been messing around with the code. I've managed to load the fasl, but I think we're missing some initializations because I get the following error: ERROR placeholder called with arguments: #<UNDEFINED-FUNCTION SYSTEM::ENSURE-AVAILABLE-SYMBOLS {E5F46E}> Here's a full stack trace: org.armedbear.lisp.ConditionThrowable: java.lang.Error at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitives$70.execute(Primitives.java:1459) at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitive.execute(Primitive.java:108) at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:781) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.error(Lisp.java:349) at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitives$72.execute(Primitives.java:1509) at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:792) at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:528) at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.undefinedFunction(Symbol.java:898) at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:779) at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:511) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.evalCall(Lisp.java:488) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.eval(Lisp.java:453) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.evalCall(Lisp.java:511) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.eval(Lisp.java:453) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.eval(Lisp.java:451) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.faslLoadStream(Load.java:523) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.access$100(Load.java:47) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load$1.execute(Load.java:381) at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:528) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.evalCall(Lisp.java:495) at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.eval(Lisp.java:453) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadStream(Load.java:491) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadFileFromStream(Load.java:452) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.load(Load.java:165) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.load(Load.java:94) at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.load(Load.java:53) at abcl_ae.AbclInit.<clinit>(AbclInit.java:32) at abcl_ae.HelloWorldServlet.doGet(HelloWorldServlet.java:17) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:693) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:806) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093) at com.google.apphosting.utils.servlet.TransactionCleanupFilter.doFilter(TransactionCleanupFilter.java:43) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.StaticFileFilter.doFilter(StaticFileFilter.java:121) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405) at com.google.apphosting.utils.jetty.DevAppEngineWebAppContext.handle(DevAppEngineWebAppContext.java:54) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.JettyContainerService$ApiProxyHandler.handle(JettyContainerService.java:342) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:313) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:506) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:830) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:381) at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:396) at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:442) ERROR placeholder called with arguments: #<UNDEFINED-FUNCTION SYSTEM::ENSURE-AVAILABLE-SYMBOLS {E5F46E}> I've made Primitives.ERROR throw a ConditionThrowable instead of calling exit -- for debugging purpose. The fasls need to be in the war directory (or in a subdirectory). An ant task copies the .abcl files from src to war\fasls. I've attached an archive with the code as it looks now. -- All the best, Alex Muscar

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[armedbear-devel] ABCL on Google App Engine (progress)
by Erik Huelsmann 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Today, on IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/#abcl) Alex and I have been working on getting ABCL to run on GAE (Google App Engine). We didn't complete our work, but since this mailing list has a wider audience than the IRC channel, I thought I'd forward our progress (his typing) to the mailing list. Possibly there are additional people interested. If others want to join in this effort to get ABCL running on GAE, I could commit the code to the examples directory in the repository. From there, we could make this a joint effort. One of the things we were running into is that we knew how to get a stream to the first-servlet.abcl file, but not how to get a path/URL to it. Can anybody contribute by answering how we should? When we know, we can do with the existing public functions, if there's not way, we need to make additional functions public. Bye, Erik. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Muscar <muscar(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:13 PM Subject: The GAE bits To: ehuels(a)gmail.com Still hackish, though :(. We'll talk more about this tomorrow. -- All the best, Alex Muscar

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