Oh, yes. DrRacket does not try to use two processors for anything (unless your program uses futures or places, of course).
Robby On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jos Koot <jos.k...@telefonica.net> wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > What I am observing is that when running DrScheme without any other apps > running, only one processor is used at a time, although control often > swichtes bnetween the two processors. I also observe that windows 7 aborts > DrScheme when more than 2Gbyte of memory is being used. I have set the > memory limit of DrScheme to infite and for windows to about 5 Gbyte. Under > windows xp virtual memory did function well, but that was with 1 Gbyte of > memory and trashing made it impossible to go up to 2 Gbyte. Now I have two > cores of 2 Gbyte, but can't put my machine to thrash on page swapping. > Jos > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: robby.find...@gmail.com >> [mailto:robby.find...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robby Findler >> Sent: 17 January 2011 16:14 >> To: Noel Welsh >> Cc: Jos Koot; users@racket-lang.org >> Subject: Re: [racket] Efficiency of tight loops in Racket >> >> I think the real reason is actually much sadder: no one on >> the core team regularly uses windows. Well, until about a >> month ago, when I started using windows for my development >> tasks so hopefully that'll change. >> >> But I'm not sure what Jos is observing and I was expecting a >> reply from Kevin or Matthew on this -- places are still >> pretty experimental. >> >> Robby >> >> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Noel Welsh >> <noelwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I've seen lots of recent commits dealing w/ Windows 7 / 64-bit >> > support, so I expect it is simply time. Windows is not as developer >> > friendly as Unix so likely to receive new features last (as >> a guess). >> > >> > N. >> > >> > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jos Koot >> <jos.k...@telefonica.net> wrote: >> >> Is there a specific reason why there is no parallel >> support for place >> >> on a dual core processor with Windows 7. >> >> Thanks, Jos >> > _________________________________________________ >> > For list-related administrative tasks: >> > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
