Re: [racket-dev] Any notion of ".jar" files for Racket?

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Brian Mastenbrook wrote at 03/06/2012 03:43 PM: On my system, DrRacket 5.2.1 opens almost 1800 files to start. The vast majority (1376) are .zo files, and another 133 are uncompiled .rkt files from the Racket distribution. It gets much faster once the files are in OS caches, which helps with

Re: [racket-dev] Any notion of ".jar" files for Racket?

2012-03-06 Thread Brian Mastenbrook
On 03/06/2012 01:14 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: One of the things I'm encountering on the Brown network file system, is that the number of files loaded by DrRacket causes some strain on their systems. I checked with the admins here, and by their count, opening up DrRacket or doing things with 'raco mak

Re: [racket-dev] Any notion of ".jar" files for Racket?

2012-03-06 Thread Danny Yoo
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote: > On 03/06/2012 02:14 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: >> >> The Java folks have a notion of ".jar" files that pack a collection of >> class files into a single archive, but also make it possible to load >> classes directly out of .jars without an inte

Re: [racket-dev] Any notion of ".jar" files for Racket?

2012-03-06 Thread Tony Garnock-Jones
On 03/06/2012 02:14 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: The Java folks have a notion of ".jar" files that pack a collection of class files into a single archive, but also make it possible to load classes directly out of .jars without an intermediate unpacking stage. .plt archives can serve a role to pack file

[racket-dev] Any notion of ".jar" files for Racket?

2012-03-06 Thread Danny Yoo
One of the things I'm encountering on the Brown network file system, is that the number of files loaded by DrRacket causes some strain on their systems. I checked with the admins here, and by their count, opening up DrRacket or doing things with 'raco make' can open about a thousand files at start