README.cmucl

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CMU Common Lisp-specific requirements



0. Executive summary


   To begin, just load INSTALL.lisp.  Then, load
   aserve/examples/examples.cl and start the server with

(net.aserve:start :port 8080)

   If you experience problems or want to get rid of some annoying
   warnings, read on.



1. Man, this is S_L_O_W!  This is unusable!


   Chances are you are an experienced user and loaded aserve through
   asdf (see next section on some words about that) instead of loading
   INSTALL.lisp.  If so, you will likely be experiencing request
   answer times of about 1 second -- per request, so you can see these
   1 pixel transparent GIFs arrive one after the other ...

   Take a look at INSTALL.lisp or the function
   cl-user::init-aserve-cmu in aserve.asd.  Once the multiprocessing
   is initialized by one of these methods, the server will be quite a
   bit more responsive.


2. Gray streams


   Portable Allegroserve needs Gray stream support in the Lisp image
   it's running in.  The file acl-compat.asd should load the required
   files automatically, if gray streams are not yet present in the
   Lisp image during system compile / load.  If you experience
   problems, please report them to the portableaserve mailing list; be
   sure to include your version of cmucl, where you obtained it, where
   its files are placed in your system, etc.  Failing to cleanly load
   acl-compat.asd is considered a bug; don't hesitate to report it as
   such.  As it is, users reported success both on Debian systems and
   with the cmucl distribution from cons.org, so it will likely Just
   Work (tm).


Have fun,

Rudi Schlatte
rudi@constantly.at