Re: [racket] Performance of Racket on Linux and Windows

2012-11-10 Thread Greg Hendershott
Although I don't know the answer, I wanted to suggest using Amazon EC2 as a way you could determine this for your specific application. You could provision two instances, use them for a few hours, then suspend or delete them. Even with the largest instance types it would probably cost ~$15 for say

[racket] Performance of Racket on Linux and Windows

2012-11-09 Thread Harry Spier
Dear list members, Has anyone compared the performance of a cpu intensive + large vectors Racket application on a machine with on of the newer multicore processors (i5 or i7 etc) with lots of memory (6 or 8 Gbytes or more) on Linux versus Windows. Should the real-time execution time (all others t