Re: [racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-08-01 Thread William G Hatch
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:55:14PM -0700, Lehi Toskin wrote: On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 9:07:14 AM UTC-7, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: The Interaction Window in DrRacket supports snips, picts etc., so it is reasonable that is slower than a terminal. But ... maybe it is possible to let the user

Re: [racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-07-29 Thread Lehi Toskin
On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 9:07:14 AM UTC-7, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > The Interaction Window in DrRacket supports snips, picts etc., so it is > reasonable that is slower than a terminal. > But ... maybe it is possible to let the user choose a simpler interaction > window. One that only

Re: [racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-07-25 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
The Interaction Window in DrRacket supports snips, picts etc., so it is reasonable that is slower than a terminal. But ... maybe it is possible to let the user choose a simpler interaction window. One that only supports text? As a feasibility experiment, is William Hatch's terminal faster than the

Re: [racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-07-25 Thread WarGrey Gyoudmon Ju
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:52 PM, George Neuner wrote: > > Having little experience with Racket's drawing library, I can't speak to > how fast it is. I do recall someone saying it was (mostly) just a thin > layer over the native platform library, but even "thin layers" add

Re: [racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-07-25 Thread Matthias Felleisen
> On Jul 25, 2017, at 12:45 AM, Lehi Toskin wrote: > > I have noticed that printing in DrRacket is rather slow and I'm wondering if > that's something I could speed up. If I have a loop that runs and prints a > whole lot of information each loop, were I to become

Re: [racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-07-25 Thread Erich Rast
This is difficult, since text% and everything on top of it is unfortunately rather slow and complex. My best advice is to limit or structure the amount of information displayed by the program, since the end user (including you) is likely even slower in parsing the information than racket is

Re: [racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-07-25 Thread George Neuner
On 7/25/2017 12:45 AM, Lehi Toskin wrote: I have noticed that printing in DrRacket is rather slow and I'm wondering if that's something I could speed up. If I have a loop that runs and prints a whole lot of information each loop, were I to become overwhelmed and click the Stop button, it

[racket-users] Printing Quickly

2017-07-24 Thread Lehi Toskin
I have noticed that printing in DrRacket is rather slow and I'm wondering if that's something I could speed up. If I have a loop that runs and prints a whole lot of information each loop, were I to become overwhelmed and click the Stop button, it would take a minute or so before my wishes made