Since the improvements so far would need explanation, and since further
improvements are still in progress (especially relative to the v6.4
branch), a separate message to the mailing list --- or a blog post? ---
seems better than a bullet in the release announcement.
At Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:00:04 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
> I think we might want to add a grain of salt to that part of the
> announcement. People shouldn't expect radically improved performance
> for, say, programs using the math library. It gets better in some
> cases, but I feel like we need something that's a bit more uniformly
> better before saying too much.
>
> So I would either say nothing, or I would add some more qualifications
> or specificity or something.
>
> Robby
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
> <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> > For Typed Racket:
> >
> > Typed Racket now generates contracts with lower overhead in many
> > cases, speeding up typed/untyped interaction.
> >
> > The contract generated for the `Any` type is now more permissive,
> > allowing more typed/untyped programs to work without contract errors.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Vincent St-Amour
> > <stamo...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> >> The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please
> >> mail me new items and/or edits.
> >>
> >> Please phrase announcements using complete sentences and avoid the
> >> word "now".
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> general:
> >> - HTTPS (for pkg catalog, and others)
> >>
> >> mflatt:
> >> - incremental GC (ba8103bbde441e38df8dce16e6cbfd36f72c1ce0)
> >> - add `internal-definition-context-{binding-identifier,track}` (0e16ce4be)
> >> - deterministic bytecode generation (2743ea06bbc and others)
> >> - `procedure-specialize` (db0a6de1d2d5d3059ec971275b287860c5bda6e2)
> >> - openssl 'secure protocol (92f1bfa4d23e0a691778b814a5956c849bb3af83)
> >> - libssl on Mac (273bc4ea4914cbe73bbb343015cc4fdeb3a1c6a4)
> >> - windows code signing (666c5f1557703ed24272387f9272321ded2ecf7f)
> >>
> >> robby:
> >> - contract performance improvements (various)
> >> - racket/contract/combinator exports cleanup (99d7ad56d954)
> >>
> >> jay:
> >> - `read-cdot` and related parameters (551e4d5a0d395)
> >> - doc categories (2e34599ce37068072a98d8b14a3065bfc31848b5)
> >> - cheat sheet
> >>
> >> asumu:
> >> - Make id-table API more hash-like (14d25abd 92fc1f41)
> >>
> >> stamourv:
> >> - additions to `racket/random`
> >>
> >> Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado:
> >> - Add config for linux/ppc64. (e957a7d6557f9718ba8493c20675b75a1145084a)
> >>
> >> Alex Knauth:
> >> - Allow separate read and write contracts for box/c (67e3899272792c2e5)
> >>
> >>
> >> Other repos:
> >>
> >> redex:
> >> - robby / Paul Stansifer: binding specifications (6410411)
> >>
> >> scribble:
> >> - mflatt: scribble/examples (50f835c)
> >> - florence: allow manipulation of scribble.tex imports (2881ef2)
> >>
> >> plot:
> >> - bennn: jitter (fc4f7e2)
> >>
> >> pict:
> >> - florence: pict/convertible changes (b95113d)
> >> - stamourv: codeblock-pict (29806e2)
> >>
> >> typed racket:
> >> - contract performance improvements
> >> - typechecking performance improvements
> >>
> >> profile / contract profile:
> >> - stamourv: add raco profile / raco contract-profile
> >> - stamourv: overhaul contract-profile output
> >>
> >> htdp:
> >> - mflatt: performance improvements for world from incremental GC?
> >>
> >> drracket:
> >> - robby: anything major?
> >>
> >> gui:
> >> - avoid using high-power GPU on Mac?
> >> - scrolling speed improvements?
> >>
> >> string-constants:
> >> - robby / Alexander Shopov: Added bulgarian translation (fb04c62)
> >>
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