Re: [racket] Greetings!

2015-03-19 Thread J Arcane
I will second that. The performance difference between the racket dedicated executable, and running something under a DrR REPL can be surprisingly huge. It's one of the reasons why I've been slowly transitioning to using racket-mode under Emacs instead. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Neil Toront

Re: [racket] Greetings!

2015-03-19 Thread Neil Toronto
Welcome! Thank you for your past work. Trying to emulate it concretized and motivated almost all of my high school and undergraduate math classes. On 03/18/2015 02:59 PM, John Carmack wrote: ... I have a specification for a VR related file format that is headed towards JSON, but I am seriou

Re: [racket] Greetings!

2015-03-19 Thread Tomi Pieviläinen
> I have a specification for a VR related file format that is headed > towards JSON, but I am seriously considering changing it to > s-expressions and embedding a trivial (not Racket) Scheme for > scripting. FWIW http://mr.gy/software/microlisp/ dialect seems to be somewhat popular in implementing

Re: [racket] Greetings!

2015-03-18 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Welcome! John Carmack wrote on 03/18/2015 02:59 PM: I would be interested in hearing any guidance for high performance servers written in Racket. GC delays in the tens of milliseconds will be problematic for at least part of this application, but I could split that part off into a separate s

Re: [racket] Greetings!

2015-03-18 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:59 PM, John Carmack wrote: > As Hacker News has brought to your attention, I am indeed enjoying my foray > into Racket land. I have three separate efforts: > > I am doing the prototyping work for a real time multi-user virtual reality > service backend in Racket. I am

[racket] Greetings!

2015-03-18 Thread John Carmack
As Hacker News has brought to your attention, I am indeed enjoying my foray into Racket land. I have three separate efforts: I am doing the prototyping work for a real time multi-user virtual reality service backend in Racket. I am sort-of assuming this will be ported to something else to dep