The archive of this is linked from the wiki now: https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Inside-Racket-Seminar-4.-Vincent-St-Amour-on-Typed-Racket-Optimizer
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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/CAJYbDamZ3wz67jdZBKH%2BZtYiwgswhEmKTcB%2B5BxTra3RAwjevw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
