> On Jul 25, 2017, at 12:45 AM, Lehi Toskin <lehi.tos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have noticed that printing in DrRacket is rather slow and I'm wondering if
> that's something I could speed up. If I have a loop that runs and prints a
> whole lot of information each loop, were I to become overwhelmed and click
> the Stop button, it would take a minute or so before my wishes made it
> through to the program.
>
> Running the same hypothetical program from the command line, the printing
> process is executed much faster and if I Ctrl-C the change is instantaneous.
>
> Am I making any sense?
Yes. This is a well-known fact and you have gotten great responses.
1. If you are asking whether you could study the code of DrRacket’s simulated
console I/O in order to improve it, the answer is “of course!” but Robby has
spent a good amount of time on this issue and Matthew has engineered the
underlying code (the GUI framework) to some extent. Whatever you find to
improve this code, great! Submit PRs.
2. If you are wondering what to do when running a program you need, there are
two answers:
— use the command line if you want console output
— use the GUI framework to build a widget if you want GUI output
As for the time it takes to interrupt a running thread, DrRacket is a mini OS
(in the sense of a resource managing system) and thus needs time to swap in the
thread that kills and to kill the thread that runs and to collect the memory
that came with it and all. There’s quite a pipeline it takes down.
— Matthias
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