Re: [racket] gc crash on raspbian

2014-07-03 Thread David Griffiths
Hi Matthew, > On 02/07/14 09:28, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> Is it enough to run the web server in its default configuration, or do >> you have to run something specific? >> >> Meanwhile, I'll looking into Deren's problem, which seems to be >> JIT-related. Just to make sure, does setting the environme

Re: [racket] gc crash on raspbian

2014-07-02 Thread David Griffiths
Hi Matthew, On 02/07/14 09:28, Matthew Flatt wrote: > Is it enough to run the web server in its default configuration, or do > you have to run something specific? > > Meanwhile, I'll looking into Deren's problem, which seems to be > JIT-related. Just to make sure, does setting the environment var

Re: [racket] gc crash on raspbian

2014-07-02 Thread David Griffiths
v6.0 on Raspbian, let me know if you are interested and > I can share it with you via dropbox or something similar. > > Franco > > > On 1 Jul 2014, at 13:05, David Griffiths wrote: > >> Hi Matthew, >> >> Just to report back, I just upgraded to v5.3.5 on the

Re: [racket] gc crash on raspbian

2014-07-01 Thread David Griffiths
the object header has only 3 bits to hold that > value, so 7 is actually as far away as possible from a valid value. > > At Fri, 02 May 2014 22:44:43 +0100, David Griffiths wrote: >> Hi Matthew, >> >> Sorry, I was a bit short on details, I'm running 5.2.1, also using &g

Re: [racket] gc crash on raspbian

2014-05-02 Thread David Griffiths
e a way to replicate the crash? I tried simply running the > web server, but I imagine there's a little more to it. > > At Fri, 02 May 2014 14:09:01 +0100, David Griffiths wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running a racket web server on a Raspberry Pi, and occasi

[racket] gc crash on raspbian

2014-05-02 Thread David Griffiths
Hi all, I'm running a racket web server on a Raspberry Pi, and occasionally getting aborts with: Unhandled info->type 7 Which I've tracked down to src/racketgc2/newgc.c Any pointers how what this could be and how to fix/work around it? cheers, dave Racket Users list: h

Re: [racket] naughty dog & irrational games

2013-06-17 Thread David Griffiths
On 15/06/13 13:30, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2013 4:45 AM, "Neil Van Dyke" > wrote: >> >> Anyone know whether Naughty Dog used Racket or other Lisp-descended > language in development of their new game, "The Last of Us"? > > Yes, they're still using R

Re: [racket] Processing and Racket

2013-06-04 Thread David Griffiths
Hi all, I've been keeping half an eye on this thread, a lot of people (me included) use fluxus/racket for teaching programming to artists, and we have a growing community of live coders who use it in performance settings (VJing and making music too). One of my current projects with fluxus is to u

Re: [racket] link errors on 64bit

2013-06-03 Thread David Griffiths
On 29/05/13 02:03, Matthew Flatt wrote: > A drawback of adding `-fPIC' to the Racket build by default is that > everyone would pay a little of performance. For example, > >racket -c -l racket > > seems to take 5-8% longer when Racket is compiled with -fPIC. That's > probably about the worst-cas

Re: [racket] link errors on 64bit

2013-05-28 Thread David Griffiths
Hi Matthew, On 24/05/13 23:54, David Griffiths wrote: > On 24/05/13 18:44, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> At Thu, 23 May 2013 14:43:18 +0100, David Griffiths wrote: >>> I've been getting a problem for some time building against the racket >>> ubuntu packages on 64 bi

Re: [racket] link errors on 64bit

2013-05-24 Thread David Griffiths
Hi Matthew, On 24/05/13 18:44, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Thu, 23 May 2013 14:43:18 +0100, David Griffiths wrote: >> I've been getting a problem for some time building against the racket >> ubuntu packages on 64 bit: >> >> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/lib

[racket] link errors on 64bit

2013-05-23 Thread David Griffiths
Hi all, I've been getting a problem for some time building against the racket ubuntu packages on 64 bit: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libracket3m.a(salloc.o): relocation R_X86_64_TPOFF32 against `scheme_thread_locals' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC Any chance this can

Re: [racket] scheme_basic_env problem

2012-01-03 Thread David Griffiths
run. I've fixed > that, too, so scheme_basic_env() should stop getting broken in this > way.) > > Using scheme_main_setup() is right, but then still call > scheme_basic_env() directly to reset. > > At Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:04:59 +0200, David Griffiths wrote: >> Hi all, >>

Re: [racket] Mark Tarver is the man!

2012-01-02 Thread David Griffiths
On 01/02/2012 01:14 AM, Racket Noob wrote: > For all you dear academic Racket scribomans As a "non-academic" I would just like to say that racket springs from quite a unique culture as programming languages go, and I value it highly for this. cheers, dave Racket Users list

[racket] scheme_basic_env problem

2012-01-01 Thread David Griffiths
Hi all, I'm looking into getting fluxus running with the latest version of racket, we were having some problems with MZ_REGISTER_STATIC when using scheme_basic_env. By changing the order of initialisation I now have this working, but resetting the environment (with a second call to scheme_basic_en

[racket] racket used for facebook game

2011-08-02 Thread David Griffiths
Hi all, Just reporting on the use of racket for a satirical facebook game - a critical art-game on the nature of social networks: http://naked-on-pluto.net/ We are running a racket serverlet to manage the game state, run the AI for the in game bots and manage user accounts and messages between th