[racket-users] Re: Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread George Neuner
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:48:00 -0700, David King wrote: >... and places have much stronger restrictions than threaded >code in most languages does. ??? There are restrictions wrt shared data ... but AFAIK places have no execution restrictions vs a [normal] serial program.

Re: [racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
While we don't plan to change the semantics of threads or of futures, Sarah Spall is working on implementing futures in the Chez-backed version of the runtime in a way that will hopefully provide parallelism for far more operations than Racket's current runtime allows. However, it's still to early

Re: [racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread Robby Findler
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:48 PM David King wrote: > Racket already has two ways to do this: futures and threads. (There was a > recent discussion on the mailing lists about futures.) > The guide has more information here: > https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parallelism.html

Re: [racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread Robby Findler
Whoops! Yes, thank you. Robby On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:46 PM Philip McGrath wrote: > futures and places, I think you mean > > -Philip > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Robby Findler < > ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> Racket already has two ways to do

Re: [racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread David King
> Racket already has two ways to do this: futures and threads. (There was a > recent discussion on the mailing lists about futures.) > The guide has more information here: > https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parallelism.html > It's true but

Re: [racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread Philip McGrath
futures and places, I think you mean -Philip On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Racket already has two ways to do this: futures and threads. (There was a > recent discussion on the mailing lists about futures.) > > The guide has more

Re: [racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread Robby Findler
Racket already has two ways to do this: futures and threads. (There was a recent discussion on the mailing lists about futures.) The guide has more information here: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parallelism.html Robby On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 4:37 PM David King wrote:

Re: [racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-15 Thread David King
>From a fully layman and newbie perspective, I'm most interested in the >possibility of actual threads that can run on more than one core. Is this a >thing that will come for "free"? > On 12 Sep 2017, at 23:29, Gour wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm interested to learn and use

Re: [racket-users] (seventh RacketCon): Early Bird Registration Almost Over!

2017-09-15 Thread Vincent St-Amour
Quick reminder: early bird registration ends tomorrow! Vincent On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 10:28:19 -0500, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > > Racketeers, > > (seventh RacketCon) keeps getting closer! It's almost a month away! > In less than two weeks, early bird registration[1] will end and ticket > prices

Re: [racket-users] Re: libusb FFI bindings for a bike trainer control application

2017-09-15 Thread Robby Findler
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Alex Harsanyi wrote: > For some reason, Google groups seems to delete my messages. If you got > this message multiple times, my apologies. This is the last time I will > try... I don't know what went wrong, but I think I've whitelisted

Re: [racket-users] libusb FFI bindings for a bike trainer control application

2017-09-15 Thread Alex Harsanyi
Hi Bert, The trainer I have uses ANT+ and the USB dongle is not a HID device, so I don't think hidapi.dll would work. I know lubusb.dll works because I already have C++ code that communicates with the trainer. However, I would be interested to have a look a the FFI bindings for the