Windows 10
Snapshot: 20210404-725710e
Windows
64-bit x64
<https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/current/installers/racket-8.0.0.13-x86_64-win32-cs.exe>
Dex
On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 12:54:24 PM UTC+2 Dexter Lagan wrote:
> Upon opening DrRacket on 8.0.0.13, Utah build:
>
> ptr-set!: cannot install value into non-atomic memory
> value: #<cpointer+offset>
> destination: #<cpointer>
> context...:
> C:\Program Files\Racket-8.0.0.13\collects\ffi\unsafe.rkt:1468:4: loop
> body of "C:\Program
> Files\Racket-8.0.0.13\share\pkgs\gui-lib\mred\private\gdi.rkt"
>
> [Exited. Close box or Ctrl-C closes the console.]
>
> Dex
> On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 12:24:42 PM UTC+2 Dexter Lagan wrote:
>
>> Looks like it's the opposite. At the moment Utah's is half the size. I'll
>> install the current Utah's and compare generated executables with 8.0
>> release.
>>
>> Utah:
>> [image: Utah.png]
>>
>> Northwestern:
>> [image: North.png]
>>
>> On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 11:42:46 AM UTC+2 Dexter Lagan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matthew,
>>>
>>> It is indeed the one from Utah. I’ll give the other one a try and
>>> report back. Thanks for looking into this!
>>>
>>> Dex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, April 4, 2021 at 8:32:00 PM UTC+2 Matthew Flatt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dex,
>>>>
>>>> Are you using a snapshot build from the Utah site --- as opposed to a
>>>> snapshot for Northwestern or some other build?
>>>>
>>>> I see that the Utah site's compiled code is twice as big as the
>>>> Northwestern site's compiled code. It looks like the build process for
>>>> Racket at Utah (via Visual Studio) misconfigures the "should compiled
>>>> code be compressed?" flag, while the build process used at Northwestern
>>>> (via MinGW) configures that setting correctly. The distribution builds
>>>> are made in the same way as the Northwestern snapshots.
>>>>
>>>> I'll fix the compilation path that the Utah snapshot uses, but it would
>>>> be good to know whether that could be the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Matthew
>>>>
>>>> At Sun, 4 Apr 2021 02:19:28 -0700 (PDT), Dexter Lagan wrote:
>>>> > I updated to current again, and executable file size has nearly
>>>> doubled
>>>> > again (120MB vs 70MB). I'd be curious to know if startup time
>>>> wouldn't be
>>>> > affected by file IO at this point. I'm using 7.9 BC 32 bits in
>>>> production
>>>> > atm, since it produces the smallest executables (12 MB!).
>>>> >
>>>> > Dex
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 8:07:00 PM UTC+1 Dexter Lagan wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > > Hello there,
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Two things:
>>>> > >
>>>> > > - I noticed a doubling of executable file sizes (from 30MB to 70MB
>>>> for
>>>> > > racket/gui with embedded libs, Windows) between Racket 7.9 (non-CS)
>>>> and
>>>> > > Racket 8.0 (CS). Because of this, startup times from network drives
>>>> also
>>>> > > doubled (from 5 to 10s for gui programs when using CS). I had to
>>>> revert to
>>>> > > 7.9 non-CS for now;
>>>> > >
>>>> > > - Because of this, I have been trying to reduce file sizes to a
>>>> minimum. I
>>>> > > tried replacing racket/gui by a minimal list of requires to no
>>>> avail. I
>>>> > > tried using the raco demod function to demodularize, but it seems
>>>> to be
>>>> > > broken on recent version of Racket (anything beyond hello world
>>>> will quit
>>>> > > prematurely, racket/gui programs won't run at all). I tried GitHub
>>>> -
>>>> > > bluerider/flattener: Source Code Level Flattener for PLT Racket
>>>> > > <https://github.com/bluerider/flattener> without success (seems
>>>> broken as
>>>> > > well). I also tried compressing executables with UPX, but it also
>>>> breaks
>>>> > > them.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Does anybody know of a way to reduce final Racket executable file
>>>> sizes
>>>> > > / flatten / demodularize while keeping gui functionality ?
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Dex
>>>> > >
>>>> >
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