[m-users.] users Digest, Vol 107, Issue 14

[Volker Wysk]

Am Montag, dem 16.10.2023 um 15:39 +0200 schrieb Michel Vanden Bossche:
> > On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, Matthew Delaney wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, I'm new to Mercury but am interested in using it to replace Prolog
> > > in a project I'm just starting. This project will need a web-interface
> > > and backend DB connectivity. Reading through Mercury's documentation,
> > > it looks like the most straightforward approach would be to use CGI
> > > for the Web App part and the Foreign Language Interface for DB
> > > connectivity. Is that correct or are there other options available?
> > 
> > If you're using one of the Java or .NET web frameworks, you can compile
> > your Mercury to a Java or C# library respectively and call it from the
> > framework.
> > 
> > Julien.
> 
> Our experience with the Java backend is that it offers great performance.
> A Mercury application complied to Java is viewed from the outside as a
> standard Java application (Spring Boot…) and can be easily deployed in the
> cloud, using Kubernetes for scalability. Just in case…

I've programmed in Java many years ago. And I think that the asm_fast grade
must be WAY faster than Java. I have two time critical Mercury projects and
the performance is astonishing.

Cheers,
Volker