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Elmord's Magic Valley
Personal blog · elmord.org/blogprogramming
Elmord's Magic Valley is a personal blog at elmord.org about programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: a comparison (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on Emacs garbage collection settings, gc-cons-threshold and gc-cons-percentage, used to reduce startup time. The one comment only points to those settings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: a comparison (2019)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-16
What Hacker News says?
gc-cons-threshold and gc-cons-percentage , for those curious. https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20190913-emacs-gc
Comment linking /blog/?entry=20190913-emacs-gc
on “Advanced techniques for reducing Emacs startup time”Submitted Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: a comparison (2019) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted R5RS, R6RS, R7RS (2017) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: A Comparison as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Impressions About Go (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: A Comparison as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: A Comparison as a story · 1 points
HN discussion