cl-async VS bordeaux-threads

Compare cl-async vs bordeaux-threads and see what are their differences.

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cl-async bordeaux-threads
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cl-async

Posts with mentions or reviews of cl-async. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-28.
  • Subprocesses in CL
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 28 Sep 2022
    You could take a look at https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/common-lisp-async-web-scraping/ and https://github.com/orthecreedence/cl-async
  • Asynchronous web programming in CL?
    5 projects | /r/lisp | 9 Oct 2021
    As for the library offering the async primitives, cl-async seems to be comparable with asyncio - however, it's based on libuv (a different event loop) and I'm not sure whether it's advisable or idiomatic to mix it with Woo.

bordeaux-threads

Posts with mentions or reviews of bordeaux-threads. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-28.
  • Subprocesses in CL
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 28 Sep 2022
    Bordeaux Threads is probably what you want. SBCL or other implementations will have additional threading support, but the bordeaux threads API is portable.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cl-async and bordeaux-threads you can also consider the following projects:

woo - A fast non-blocking HTTP server on top of libev

cl-coroutine - Cl-coroutine is a coroutine library for Common Lisp. It uses cl-cont continuations library in its implementation.

wookie - Asynchronous HTTP server in common lisp

cl-tbnl-gserver-tmgr - Hunchentoot Gserver based taskmanager