vintage screwlisp account
@pkw
I guess fare's best practices say it's for when you have a library that has grown very big, and you are loading a huge dependency just to get one thing from it. I'm actually surprised #opticl doesn't use it, and I had assumed #cl-fiasco was using it somehow but evidently it's not, nor is #McCLIM .
I guess it's very non-residential in terms of source at first blush, but I actually think it's the opposite, making a non-residential source system feel kind of more residential.
@alcinnz
The reference I would look to for #DEFLATE (#PNG) compression would be #opticl ; while it's lovely #lisp native, I think the implementation of #DEFLATE includes non-portable (in some sense) hardware acceleration to speed up de/compression. https://github.com/slyrus/opticl
I believe #opticl is used by #mcclim ansi #clim2 implementation, for example. #commonLisp. Even if you're not working in lisp, lisp is natural to absorb ideas from.
@vertigo