On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 06:49:59PM -0500, Yuhao Dong wrote: > - Racket doesn't seem to be able to call raw C code or machine code in > static libraries, instead requiring the code be compiled into a library. > Is this related to the fact that Racket is run in a VM rather than > compiled to machine code?
> - Some things in racket are pathologically slow. As an example, try > implementing a cipher with loops and array indices and bytestrings. It > will end up orders of magnitude slower than, say, C or Go or Java, or > sometimes even Python. I wonder how Gambit-C fares in this context. Gambit-C is a Scheme that is compiled directly into C, and it has a mechanism for inline C code. On debian it's the 'gambc' package, and the 'gambc-doc' package for documentation. But I suspect adapting Typed Racket to make it into Typed Gambit might be a big project. -- hendrik ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
