Please get excite for this tomorrow. !
Jay On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > On June 21st at 11am Central time, please join us for the fourth Inside Racket > Seminar where Vincent St-Amour will give us a walk-through of the > implementation of Typed Racket's optimizer. > > As before, it will be on Google Hangouts on Air with Vincent walking > through the code and giving an explanation of how it all hooks > together. This is not a tutorial on Racket or on the library, but a > kind of oral history and explanation of the software and how it works. > Our hope is that this will increase the ability of others to build and > maintain similar software as we share this kind of expertise in a way > that doesn't fit our existing distribution mechanisms (research > papers, RacketCon talks, documentation, etc.) > > Hangouts on Air link: > https://plus.google.com/events/chm87mh4umkdpkomk8k8i2lmi7o > > I hope that you are able to attend and send your own questions as we go > through. > > Here are some things you may want to look at to prepare: > > 0. The optimizer is all syntax classes, so having a good understanding > of syntax-parse is useful. > > 1. The system is mentioned in passing in "Languages as Libraries": > https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/pldi11-tscff.pdf > > 2. A big part of the implemented optimizations depend on an > understanding of Racket's numeric tower, which is discussed well in > "Typing the Numeric Tower": > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/padl12-stff.pdf > > Please feel free to send questions beforehand, on this thread or to me > personally. We will archive the video for later viewing, etc. > > As a small preview of his style, you may want to check out Vincent's > talk at RacketCon 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7uPm3J-o6g > > Jay > > -- > Jay McCarthy > Associate Professor > PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAJYbDa%3D4kyKcmxjd21PdKXM49K3tiZNNxYF0Fg2Enr8vd%3DctuQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
