Hi - (This is a continuation of some discussions I've had on the dev list a couple years ago.)
We continue to have performance issues stemming from Racket's runtime file system usage. Hopefully someone can shed some more light on the issues so we can adjust our usages... We use a minimal install of Racket because we see a significant increase in performance over the full installation. It seems like the large source of performance issues is that Racket will routinely (perhaps during requires?) grovel over all the files in the pkgs directory -- maybe looking at all the info.rkt files? This is very slow (compared to everything else we're doing), even on a local SSD. First question: Is there a different way to do this? Perhaps freezing the package information in place so that file enumeration doesn't have to take place at runtime? Also, the minimal install of Racket is missing some features we'd like, for example "rackunit". But when I install rackunit, my pkgs directory goes from 15 or so packages up to about 120 packages! So using rackunit at all requires us to sacrifice most of the performance gain we need... Is there a way to do minimal installs of packages? I imagine skipping any gui elements would cut down the dependencies quite a bit. Thanks for any help, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
