Re: [racket-users] Neovim Racket host: control Neovim using Racket

2017-09-12 Thread hiphish
> These two problems are related AFAICT. Currently your package is set up > as a multicollection package but the info.rkt file is only in the top-level > directory, whereas it should go in the subdirectories. I suspect you don't > actually want a multicollection package in this case. Yes, you're ri

Re: [racket-users] Do futures actually work? What are they useful for?

2017-09-12 Thread Matthias Felleisen
A word of caution on parallelism in general. Not too long ago, someone in CS at an Ivy League school studied the use of parallelism across different uses and applications. The goal was to find out how much the ‘hype’ about parallelism affected people. My recollection is that they found close to

Re: [racket-users] Do futures actually work? What are they useful for?

2017-09-12 Thread Philip McGrath
It may well be much too early to say, but is there a chance that the planned move to Chez will result in fewer operations blocking futures? From what I read of the plans ( https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-dev/2BV3ElyfF8Y/UaHcKAHcCAAJ): > > Chez exposes OS-level threads with limited safety gua

Re: [racket-users] Do futures actually work? What are they useful for?

2017-09-12 Thread Alexis King
> On Sep 12, 2017, at 7:57 AM, Matthias Felleisen > wrote: > > A word of caution on parallelism in general. Not too long ago, someone > in CS at an Ivy League school studied the use of parallelism across > different uses and applications. The goal was to find out how much the > ‘hype’ about paral

[racket-users] Racket v6.10.1

2017-09-12 Thread Vincent St-Amour
Racket version 6.10.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Version 6.10.1 patches the recent v6.10 release in three small ways: * On Linux, corrects a mishandling of file-stream ports that can block on input or output (such as pipes between processes), where closing a blocked

[racket-users] Racket PPA updated for v6.10.1

2017-09-12 Thread Asumu Takikawa
Hi everyone, The Ubuntu PPA has been updated for v6.10.1: https://launchpad.net/~plt/+archive/ubuntu/racket for trusty, xenial, and zesty. Please report any issues or feedback here: https://github.com/takikawa/racket-ppa Cheers, Asumu -- You received this message because you are subscri

[racket-users] Benefits of Racket-on-Chez for laymen

2017-09-12 Thread Gour
Hello, I'm interested to learn and use Racket for desktop apps and after reading about the plan to use Chez Scheme as Racket's VM I wonder what are the implications of this step for the end users? By looking at this https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ benchmark it's clear that Chez Scheme