Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-26 Thread nate
Awesome. Also I didn’t know you could include ‘#%place like that. Nate > On Nov 25, 2020, at 9:41 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > Here's an in-progress PR: https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/3518 > > With this, your simple test takes about 150ms with `racket/place` and > 50ms with

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Here's an in-progress PR: https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/3518 With this, your simple test takes about 150ms with `racket/place` and 50ms with `racket/place/dynamic`. For comparison, just having the submodule depend on `racket/base` gives a time of about 42 ms, and just `racket/kernel` is

Re: [SPAM] Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:09 PM Nathaniel W Griswold wrote: > racket/fixnum, racket/flonum, and racket/vector are needed by > “private/th-place.rkt”, which is required by racket/place. Not sure why > DrRacket is saying that it’s not needed. > > Ah, sorry: DrRacket was merely saying that the

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
th-place is used if places are not enabled when Racket is built (this is the default on some platforms). I'm making progress on shrinking this, hopefully I'll have a patch done soon. One thing to note is that '#%place can be required directly and will have almost no start-up cost. Sam Sam On

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nathaniel W Griswold
I noticed i am using the pl- functions so I replaced th-place.rkt with a stub and saw more time shaved off, this time about 15ms for each racket/place import. Under what circumstances is th-place used instead of '#%place and needed? Nate > On Nov 24, 2020, at 12:31 PM, Nathaniel W Griswold >

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nathaniel W Griswold
I seem to remember there being some global namespace. Since every reasonable place will require racket/place, might it be possible to make the racket/place import a special case and stick it in the global space, to improve place setup time? It would be nice to be able to only set up

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nathaniel W Griswold
Actually, it cuts about 20-25ms off of a single import. Down from 185ms to 165ms for me. 50ms off my startup time of my app on average, since i basically stack the import twice and sync on the place being ready. Might be worth including and seeing if there’s anything else that can be shaved

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nathaniel W Griswold
I checked into it a bit. racket/fixnum, racket/flonum, and racket/vector are needed by “private/th-place.rkt”, which is required by racket/place. Not sure why DrRacket is saying that it’s not needed. racket/runtime-path does not appear to be needed. I tried removing racket/runtime-path and

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Robby Findler
I didn't check to see if removing those has a significant performance effect, but the remaining requires seem pretty minimal. Robby On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:26 AM 'Nathaniel W Griswold' via Racket Users < racket-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Cool. If this is indeed the case it might be

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread 'Nathaniel W Griswold' via Racket Users
Cool. If this is indeed the case it might be nice for someone (maybe me) to cut it down, since any nontrivial place will of course require racket/place and that is kind of a long time. Nate > On Nov 24, 2020, at 9:52 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > > DrRacket thinks that there are no references

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Robby Findler
DrRacket thinks that there are no references to a number of the requires in racket/place, including racket/fixnum, racket/flonum, racket/vector, and racket/runtime-path. Not sure if that's an error on DrRacket's part (and I don't see why those would be needed for their effects). Also, the only

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nate Griswold
Oh, interesting. So compilation breaks the submodule out from the modules if possible? So anyway, it sounds like breaking my modules out into separate files will improve performance in most cases. Unfortunately, i need racket/place in the module that is my startup bottleneck. If i modify the

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Matthew Flatt
Just to elaborate a little more: The difference is because the `test` submodule can be loaded independently from the compiled form. Loading the submodule from source requires loading the enclosing module, too (which depends on `racket/place` and more). At Tue, 24 Nov 2020 08:46:12 -0600, Nate

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nate Griswold
Awesome, thanks! Nate On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 8:44 AM Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > Almost certainly the problem is expansion time. If I run that program > on my machine, it takes about 200 ms. But if I compile the file to zo > first with `raco make`, then it takes about 40 ms, basically

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Almost certainly the problem is expansion time. If I run that program on my machine, it takes about 200 ms. But if I compile the file to zo first with `raco make`, then it takes about 40 ms, basically identical to `racket/base`. Sam On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:39 AM Nate Griswold wrote: > > Oops,

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread 'Nathaniel W Griswold' via Racket Users
Thank you, Matthew. The following code takes around 250ms on my machine. Any idea why? I was expecting it to be fast since the module is based on racket/base. #lang racket/base (require syntax/location) (require racket/place) (module test racket/base (provide place-main) racket (define

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nate Griswold
Oops, i am having some issues with not getting to the list from my other email address. Here is a reply i sent for the record. --- Thank you, Matthew. The following code takes around 250ms on my machine. Any idea why? I was expecting it to be fast since the module is based on racket/base.

Re: [racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Matthew Flatt
The bottleneck for place startup is loading modules into the new place, including modules like `racket/base`. For example, (place-wait (dynamic-place 'racket 'void)) takes around 200ms on my machine, while (place-wait (dynamic-place 'racket/base 'void)) takes around 30ms and

[racket-users] snappier place startup time

2020-11-24 Thread Nate Griswold
Is there any way to make places startup faster? Even if i do an explicit round trip using place-channel-put and place-channel-get on both sides, it takes on the order of centiseconds for near empty places to start up. My program requires the threads for a couple places to be set up before it can