[racket-dev] Writing a syntax transformer to replace embedded image snips in programs

2011-11-11 Thread Danny Yoo
I'm having some trouble writing a function that takes a program with image snips, lifting those snips to files, and replacing the snips with name references. I was wondering if someone seeing anything trivially wrong in: https://github.com/dyoo/whalesong/blob/master/expand-out-images.rkt

Re: [racket-dev] I/O scheduler change --- epoll(), kqueue(), etc.

2011-11-11 Thread Jordan Schatz
Awesome! : ) On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:38:47PM -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote: > I've pushed a change in the way that the Racket scheduler handles I/O. > The new implementation should scale to a large number of network > connections, at least on Linux and BSDs (including Mac OS X). > > > Formerly,

Re: [racket-dev] I/O scheduler change --- epoll(), kqueue(), etc.

2011-11-11 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I already relayed this good news (and the good news about byte I/O recently) to one of my clients, who is a large user of Racket for Web apps. I suspect this improvement will mean noticeably better responsiveness for them under load, and perhaps fewer servers. -- http://www.neilvandyke.org/ _