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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAH3z3gbTtjddB6rwgmjqAWHoBxJFBdMgP9bSF5XtQeXRTJYBNw%40mail.gmail.com.
