It worked! After fixing both instances:
$ diff -u config.rktd /etc/racket/config.rktd
--- config.rktd 2025-06-21 18:27:56.916934790 -0400
+++ /etc/racket/config.rktd 2025-06-21 13:33:06.281960282 -0400
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
;; generated by unixstyle-install
#hash(
(doc-dir . "/usr/share/doc/racket")
- (lib-dir . "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/racket")
+ (lib-dir . "/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/racket")
(pkgs-dir . "/usr/share/racket/pkgs")
(share-dir . "/usr/share/racket")
(include-dir . "/usr/include/racket")
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
(apps-dir . "/usr/share/applications")
(man-dir . "/usr/share/man")
(absolute-installation? . #t)
- (compiled-file-roots . (same
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/racket/compiled"))
+ (compiled-file-roots . (same
"/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/racket/compiled"))
(build-stamp . "")
(doc-search-url . "
https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.16/doc/local-redirect/index.html
")
(catalogs . ("https://download.racket-lang.org/releases/8.16/catalog/";
#f))
Racket is now 60 times faster!
$ time /usr/bin/racket -e "(exit)"
real 0m3.036s
user 0m2.317s
sys 0m0.582s
Thanks, David.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM David Bremner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I rolled racket back to v8.7 [cs] (from snapshot.debian.org), and the
> > performance is as expected:
> >
> > $ /usr/bin/racket --version
> > Welcome to Racket v8.7 [cs].
> > $ time /usr/bin/racket -e '(exit)'
> >
> > real 0m2.667s
> > user 0m2.179s
> > sys 0m0.436s
>
> Can you try editing /etc/racket/config.rktd, and changing the
> appropriate line to
>
> (compiled-file-roots . (same
> "/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/racket/compiled"))
>
>
--
Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga
Programmer Archaeologist
