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

2017-09-15 Thread George Neuner
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:48:00 -0700, David King wrote: >... and places have much stronger restrictions than threaded >code in most languages does. ??? There are restrictions wrt shared data ... but AFAIK places have no execution restrictions vs a [normal] serial program. And place channels rea

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

2017-09-14 Thread Gour
On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 05:53:59 -0600 Matthew Flatt wrote: > Yes, that's the goal. In the near term, the best-case scenario is that > existing Racket programs run on Chez Scheme and sometimes run faster > and/or in less memory. Wonderful! > The benefits within Racket's implementation are much grea