30 Oct 2020
Planet Lisp
ABCL Dev: ABCL 1.8.0
Under the gathering storms of the Fall 2020, we are pleased to release ABCL 1.8.0 as the Ninth major revision of the implementation.
This Ninth Edition of the implementation now supports building and running on the recently released openjdk15 platform. This release is intended as the last major release to support the openjdk6 openjdk7, and openjdk8 platforms, for with abcl-2.0.0 we intend to move the minimum platform to openjdk11 or better in order to efficiently implement atomic memory compare and swap operations.
With this release, the implementation of the EXT:JAR-PATHNAME and EXT:URL-PATHNAME subtypes of cl:PATHNAME has been overhauled to the point that arbitrary references to ZIP archives within archives now work for read-only stream operations (CL:PROBE-FILE CL:TRUENAME, CL:OPEN, CL:LOAD, CL:FILE-WRITE-DATE, CL:DIRECTORY, and CL:MERGE-PATHNAMES). The previous versions of the implementation relied on the ability for java.net.URL to open streams of an archive within an archive, behavior that was silently dropped after Java 5, and consequently hasn't worked on common platforms supported by the Bear in a long time. The overhaul of the implementation restores the feasibility of accessing fasls from within jar files. Interested parties may examine the ASDF-JAR contrib for a recipe for packaging and accessing such artifacts. Please consult the "Beyond ANSI: Pathnames" Section 4.2 of the User Manual for further details for how namestrings and components of PATHNAME objects have been revised.
A more comprehensive list of CHANGES is available with the source.
30 Oct 2020 11:34am GMT
28 Oct 2020
Planet Lisp
Alexander Artemenko: cl-pdf
This is the library for PDF generation and parsing.
Today I'm too lazy to provided step by step examples, but I have a real task to do with this library.
Some time ago I've read the article about productivity which recommended to print a "life calendar". This calendar should remind you: "The life is limited and the time's price is high."
The calendar is a grid where every box is one week of you life. The article suggested to buy a poster with the calendar, but I don't want to wait for a parcel with the poster! I want to print it now!
And here is where cl-pdf comes on the scene!
I wrote this simple function to generate the poster of A1 format:
(defun render (&optional (filename "life.pdf"))
(flet ((to-ppt (size-in-mm)
(/ size-in-mm 1/72 25.4)))
(let* ((width (to-ppt 594)) ;; This is A1 page size in mm
(height (to-ppt 841))
(margin-top (to-ppt 70))
(margin-bottom (to-ppt 30))
(span (to-ppt 2))
(year-weeks 52)
(years 90)
(box-size (/ (- (- height (+ margin-top margin-bottom))
(* span (1- years)))
years))
(boxes-width (+ (* box-size year-weeks)
(* span (1- year-weeks))))
(boxes-height (+ (* box-size years)
(* span (1- years))))
;; horizontal margin depends on box size,
;; because we need to center them
(margin-h (/ (- width boxes-width)
2))
(box-radius (/ box-size 3))
(helvetica (pdf:get-font "Helvetica")))
(pdf:with-document ()
(pdf:with-page (:bounds (rutils:vec 0 0 width height))
;; For debug
;; (pdf:rectangle margin-h margin-bottom
;; boxes-width
;; boxes-height
;; :radius box-radius)
(loop for year from 0 below years
do (loop for week from 0 below year-weeks
for x = (+ margin-h (* week (+ box-size span)))
for y = (+ margin-bottom (* year (+ box-size span)))
do (pdf:rectangle x y box-size box-size :radius box-radius)))
;; The title
(pdf:draw-centered-text
(/ width 2)
(+ margin-bottom
boxes-height
;; space between text and boxes in mm
(to-ppt 15))
"LIFE CALENDAR"
helvetica
;; font-size in mm
(to-ppt 30))
;; Labels for weeks
(let ((font-size
;; We want labels to be slightly smaller than boxes
(* box-size 2/3)))
(pdf:draw-right-text
(+ margin-h
(/ box-size 4))
(+ margin-bottom
boxes-height
;; space between text and boxes in mm
(to-ppt 10))
"Weeks of the year"
helvetica
font-size)
(loop for week below year-weeks
do (pdf:draw-centered-text
(+ margin-h
(/ box-size 2)
(* week (+ box-size span)))
(+ margin-bottom
boxes-height
;; space between text and boxes in mm
(to-ppt 3))
(rutils:fmt "~A" (1+ week))
helvetica
font-size))
;; Labels for years
(pdf:with-saved-state
(pdf:translate
(- margin-h
(to-ppt 10))
(- (+ margin-bottom
boxes-height)
(/ box-size 4)))
(pdf:rotate 90)
(pdf:draw-left-text
0 0
"Years of your life"
helvetica
font-size))
(loop for year below years
do (pdf:draw-left-text
(- margin-h
;; space between text and boxes in mm
(to-ppt 3))
(+ margin-bottom
(/ box-size 4)
(* year (+ box-size span)))
(rutils:fmt "~A" (- years year))
helvetica
font-size))
;; The Question.
(pdf:draw-left-text
(- width margin-h)
(- margin-bottom
(to-ppt 10))
"Is this the End?"
helvetica
(* font-size 2))
(pdf:close-and-stroke)))
(pdf:write-document filename)))))
Here is how result will look like:
The PDF can be downloaded here.
This program demonstrates a few features of cl-pdf:
- ability to set page size;
- text drawing and rotation;
- font manipulation.
There are a lot more features but all of them aren't documented, only several examples :(
GitHub shows 4 forks with some patches. And some of them are turned into a pull-request, but maintainer is inactive on the GitHub since 2019 :(
28 Oct 2020 8:49pm GMT
26 Oct 2020
Planet Lisp
Alexander Artemenko: cl-async-await
This library implements the async/await abstraction to make it easier to write parallel programs.
Now we'll turn "dexador" http library calls into async and will see if we can parallel 50 requests to the site which response in 5 seconds.
To create a function which can return a delayed result, a "promise", we have to use cl-async-await:defun-async:
POFTHEDAY> (cl-async-await:defun-async http-get (url &rest args)
(apply #'dexador:get url args))
Now let's call this function. When called it returns a "promise" object not the real response from the site:
POFTHEDAY> (http-get "https://httpbin.org/delay/5")
#<CL-ASYNC-AWAIT:PROMISE Not awaited>
Now we can retrieve the real result, using cl-async-await:await function:
POFTHEDAY> (cl-async-await:await *)
"{
\"args\": {},
\"data\": \"\",
\"files\": {},
\"form\": {},
\"headers\": {
\"Accept\": \"*/*\",
\"Content-Length\": \"0\",
\"Host\": \"httpbin.org\",
\"User-Agent\": \"Dexador/0.9.14 (SBCL 2.0.8); Darwin; 19.5.0\",
\"X-Amzn-Trace-Id\": \"Root=1-5f9732d6-148ee9a305fab66c26a2dbfd\"
},
\"origin\": \"188.170.77.131\",
\"url\": \"https://httpbin.org/delay/5\"
}
"
200 (8 bits, #xC8, #o310, #b11001000)
#<HASH-TABLE :TEST EQUAL :COUNT 7 {1002987DE3}>
#<QURI.URI.HTTP:URI-HTTPS https://httpbin.org/delay/5>
#<CL+SSL::SSL-STREAM for #<FD-STREAM for "socket 192.168.43.216:49762, peer: 35.170.225.136:443" {10085B0BF3}>>
If we look a the promise object again, we'll see it has a state now:
POFTHEDAY> **
#<CL-ASYNC-AWAIT:PROMISE (VALUES {
"args": {},
"data": "",
"files": {},
"form": {},
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Content-Length": "0",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "Dexador/0.9.14 (SBCL 2.0.8); Darwin; 19.5.0",
"X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-5f9732d6-148ee9a305fab66c26a2dbfd"
},
"origin": "188.170.77.131",
"url": "https://httpbin.org/delay/5"
}
200 #<HASH-TABLE :TEST EQUAL :COUNT 7 {1002987DE3}>
https://httpbin.org/delay/5
#<SSL-STREAM for #<FD-STREAM for "socket 192.168.43.216:49762, peer: 35.170.225.136:443" {10085B0BF3}>>) >
Ok, it is time to see if we can retrieve results from this site in parallel. To make it easier to test speed, I'll wrap all code into the separate function.
The function returns the total number of bytes in all 50 responses:
POFTHEDAY> (defun do-the-test ()
(let ((promises
(loop repeat 50
collect (http-get "https://httpbin.org/delay/5"
:use-connection-pool nil
:keep-alive nil))))
;; Now we have to fetch results from our promises.
(loop for promise in promises
for response = (cl-async-await:await
promise)
summing (length response))))
POFTHEDAY> (time (do-the-test))
Evaluation took:
6.509 seconds of real time
2.496912 seconds of total run time (1.672766 user, 0.824146 system)
38.36% CPU
14,372,854,434 processor cycles
1,519,664 bytes consed
18300
As you can see, the function returns in 6.5 seconds instead of 250 seconds! This means cl-async-await works!
The only problem I found was this concurrency issue:
https://github.com/j3pic/cl-async-await/issues/3
But probably it is only related to Dexador.
26 Oct 2020 8:48pm GMT