How does this impact things that cannot work without special modification
to the runtime system like places and futures?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:47 AM Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote:

> At Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:40:20 -0500, "'John Clements' via Racket
> Developers" wrote:
> > > A Racket on Chez won't be compatible with the current Racket VM at the
> > > level of the C API. [...]
> >
> > You mention incompatibility at the level of the C API. I read that
> > three or four times before deciding that this isn’t about those
> > writing Racket packages that use FFI to interact with C libraries,
> > but rather those rare packages that want to use Racket’s C API to
> > interact with Racket. Is this correct?
>
> That's right. I expect Racket's FFI to mostly work as a layer on Chez's
> FFI, so most Racket programs that use `ffi/unsafe` can continue to work.
>
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