Fascinating! And thank you for the detailed write-up. It'll be exciting to see the progress of the epic rewrite. Also +++ for being able to build on Dybvig's magnificent legacy.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:49 PM, James Swaine < james.swa...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > How does this impact things that cannot work without special modification > to the runtime system like places and futures? > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:47 AM Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > >> At Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:40:20 -0500, "'John Clements' via Racket >> Developers" wrote: >> > > A Racket on Chez won't be compatible with the current Racket VM at the >> > > level of the C API. [...] >> > >> > You mention incompatibility at the level of the C API. I read that >> > three or four times before deciding that this isn’t about those >> > writing Racket packages that use FFI to interact with C libraries, >> > but rather those rare packages that want to use Racket’s C API to >> > interact with Racket. Is this correct? >> >> That's right. I expect Racket's FFI to mostly work as a layer on Chez's >> FFI, so most Racket programs that use `ffi/unsafe` can continue to work. >> >> -- >> 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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to racket-dev@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> msgid/racket-dev/20170215164752.39C97650090%40mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to racket-dev@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/racket-dev/CAEkQqGS-TsdUgq23K54RO4-cOs8abVh5R- > Ahvfga-D2E8W1yrA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAEkQqGS-TsdUgq23K54RO4-cOs8abVh5R-Ahvfga-D2E8W1yrA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to racket-dev@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAKeBiN6FRvA0-J1vuquR9sXyuSQ7Fzsionu3ypLQSCLpL9kWhg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
