On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 10:38 AM Joshua Judson Rosen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I also had found that "The Racket Virtual Machine and Randomized Testing"
> essay--
> the big question there, after skimming and scanning, was basically to what
> extent
> that depiction of Racket is still accurate (I didn't see a date in the
> paper itself,
> but I gathered from that the accompanying README said "known to work with
> Racket v5.0.2",
> and that the timestamps in the tarball were from 2010, that it's just shy
> of a decade old).
>
> I'm reading your response as indicating that the only changes in the VM
> over the last decade have basically been bugfixes and maybe
> performance-improvements--
> that the type of bytecode and interpretation basically haven't changed
> since you worked
> on that paper.
>

I don't know enough to comment on the bigger picture, but I remembered
Matthew's announcement from 2018 (
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/racket-dev/UTCAA_wPkc4/discussion) that
the bytecode validator was being retired.

-Philip

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