Sounds cool. On yesterday's nightly (debian squeeze 64), I had to do a `sudo raco setup` to have the help webpage, otherwise I would get a http 404.
Laurent On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > When `raco setup' builds documentation, it now puts cross-reference > keys and dependency information into an SQLite database. So, building > documentation now requires that SQLite is installed (on Unixes; SQLite > is installed by default on Mac OS X, and Racket includes SQLite on > Windows). > > The changes are all under the hood, but you may notice the difference: > > * DrRacket's initial footprint is about 50 MB smaller for a 64-bit > build. > > The savings come from not loading all cross-reference information > into memory. When you ask for documentation on `cons', DrRacket now > consults the database to determine which document might have > information on `cons', and so on. > > Ultimately, cross-reference information must be deserialized from > the same kind of "out.sxref" file as before. A large document like > the Reference can have multiple "out.sxref" files, however, so > DrRacket doesn't have to deserialize all of the Reference's > cross-references to show information `cons'. > > * When you have a simple Scribble document like > > #lang scribble/base > Hello > > and click "Scribble HTML", the result is closer to instantaneous. > > Scribble doesn't have to load (another copy of) all cross-reference > information into memory before rendering the document. > > You get the same improvement when using `raco scribble ++xref-in > setup/xref load-collections-xref'. > > * The document-rendering part of `raco setup' uses a little less > memory and runs a little faster. > > Besides reducing the need to load and re-load cross-reference > information, dependency and global duplicate-definition checking is > now handled by a database query, so it should scale better. > > There will almost certainly be some problems, so keep an eye out for > broken or suspicious `raco setup' or documentation behavior. > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >
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