Re: [racket-users] plan for the upcoming v7.0 release

2018-05-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 04:02:39PM -0600, Matthew Flatt wrote: > The next release of Racket will be version 7.0: > > * Version 7.0 is a milestone on our path to replace the old, > C-implemented runtime system with Chez Scheme. > > * As such, version 7.0 reflects MAJOR INTERNAL CHANGES that make

Re: [racket-users] plan for the upcoming v7.0 release

2018-05-27 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 27 May 2018 15:42:28 +0300, Dmitry Pavlov wrote: > What will happen to the performance of expander, though? > IIUC, the present C expander will be gone in Racket 7 and replaced > with a new expander written in Racket. While Chez runtime > users will enjoy the Racket performance boost that w

Re: [racket-users] plan for the upcoming v7.0 release

2018-05-27 Thread Dmitry Pavlov
On 05/27/2018 03:10 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: Hi Dmitry, At Sun, 27 May 2018 14:21:27 +0300, Dmitry Pavlov wrote: We do not expect Racket users to see a big difference between Racket v6.12 and Racket v7.0. I once saw in some text file that extflonums will not make it to Racket on Chez. Will

[racket-users] plan for the upcoming v7.0 release

2018-05-26 Thread Matthew Flatt
The next release of Racket will be version 7.0: * Version 7.0 is a milestone on our path to replace the old, C-implemented runtime system with Chez Scheme. * As such, version 7.0 reflects MAJOR INTERNAL CHANGES that make Racket-on-Chez possible --- especially the switch to a new implementat