Re: [racket-users] Re: Do futures actually work? What are they useful for?

2017-09-11 Thread mrmyers . random . suffix
Oh. That does seem troubling then. On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 6:45:45 PM UTC-4, Jon Zeppieri wrote: > > > > > On Sep 11, 2017, at 6:39 PM, mrmyers.ra...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > > As far as I'm aware, futures usually shouldn't improve performance > outside of networking or hardware-late

[racket-users] Re: Do futures actually work? What are they useful for?

2017-09-11 Thread mrmyers . random . suffix
As far as I'm aware, futures usually shouldn't improve performance outside of networking or hardware-latency type situations. The main goal of futures is just time-sharing, not improving performance. It doesn't genuinely do things in parallel, it just interleaves the execution of several things

[racket-users] Re: Slack discussion for Racket

2017-01-11 Thread mrmyers . random . suffix
On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 4:49:08 PM UTC-5, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > A while back, Jason Yeo created a Slack for talking about Racket at > https://racket.slack.com/ After talking with some other Racket > developers (and with Jason's permission), we're planning to make this > an official p

[racket-users] Racket for Smartphone Apps

2015-09-24 Thread mrmyers . random . suffix
I would personally caution against it, for the following reasons: 1. At least for Android, most of what you will need for this is interfacing with the respective gui libraries, which take a bit of getting used to, even just using Google's relatively helpful and complete documentation. Working wit

[racket-users] Re: help on coding finite state automata

2015-09-04 Thread mrmyers . random . suffix
On Friday, September 4, 2015 at 9:31:36 AM UTC-4, Michael Myers wrote: > You might want to take a look at https://github.com/mromyers/automata > specifically, https://github.com/mromyers/automata/blob/master/examples.rkt > and https://github.com/mromyers/automata/blob/master/machines.rkt > > I mor

Re: [racket-users] Re: help on coding finite state automata

2015-09-03 Thread mrmyers . random . suffix
On Friday, September 4, 2015 at 1:34:38 AM UTC-4, Linh Chi Nguyen wrote: > Wow as much as i appreciate and try to see through all the answers, i have to > confess that i'm a first year Phd student in economics. So writing macro is > too far for me now. > > I'd just process with struct.. And see

[racket-users] Re: help on coding finite state automata

2015-09-03 Thread mrmyers . random . suffix
On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 10:29:33 AM UTC-4, Linh Chi Nguyen wrote: > Dear All, > I'm a complete newbie in racket and need help in coding finite state > machine/automata. Please pardon any of my ignorance. > > Thanks to this post of Tim Thornton, I see a very good way to code FSM: > http: