Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.5

2016-04-19 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:28:59 -0500, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please > mail me new items and/or edits. > [...] > > mflatt: > - unix-style install on Mac (4e7bb3071a913e57715e68b09b39666c75026aee) > - new optimizer IR

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.5

2016-04-16 Thread Gustavo Massaccesi
*** 1b54b1c0400dd25110efb90e1da6fda34487f03c and 2bfb851ccc49b3de72e5c5d60b8d337d890a068e - The optimizer can figure out in more cases that a variable is always a number, and remove the run time checks and omitable calculations. *** 3f246dd857c886214ef6766f5c3baf2f50340b06 It's an internal

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.5

2016-04-15 Thread Robby Findler
That works. On Friday, April 15, 2016, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > In understand your point, but very few people actually know what this > benchmark is. > > What about "in a number of gradual typing programs we studied"? > > Vincent > > > > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.5

2016-04-15 Thread Vincent St-Amour
In understand your point, but very few people actually know what this benchmark is. What about "in a number of gradual typing programs we studied"? Vincent On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:12:53 -0500, Robby Findler wrote: > > I would replace "in many cases" with "in our gradual typing benchmark" > or

Re: [racket-dev] Release Announcement for v6.5

2016-04-15 Thread Stephen Chang
>> stchang: >> - hash iteration performance improvements >> (e8d34dd1562869c4e9352c5f007ed400825c85bb and others) - The in-hash and in-hash-pairs sequences use the newly added hash-iterate-pair and hash-iterate-key+value, resulting in performance improvements, eg they are twice as fast on some