On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Greg Trzeciak <gtrzec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to use Arrays/Matrix from untyped Racket but then I noticed the 
> following in the docs (https://docs.racket-lang.org/math/array.html):
>
> "Performance Warning: Indexing the elements of arrays created in untyped 
> Racket is currently 25-50 times slower than doing the same in Typed Racket, 
> due to the overhead of checking higher-order contracts. We are working on it."
>
> Has there been any progress in this area and what are the chances that the 
> overhead may fall to more reasonable in this area in the near future?

We have reduced this overhead somewhat, but it's still likely to be
prohibitive in many cases.

I think that "We are working on it" may need to be interpreted on an
academic time scale in this case.

Sam

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