Re: [racket] how do I run profiling from DrRacket

2014-01-05 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I wouldn't bother profiling within DrRacket. I think that feature might still be for small student programs. For doing performance tuning, you can do *some* of it within DrRacket (like comparing the timings of many iterations of two different implementations of a function), but then you have

Re: [racket] how do I run profiling from DrRacket

2014-01-05 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Don't run profiling within drracket. DrRacket is a wonderful IDE (and I use it on a daily basis for almost all my Racket programming) but profiling in drracjet is broken and unreliable in information gathering. (Keep in mind that DrRacket is an OS running atop of an OS (linux, windows, mac), whic

[racket] how do I run profiling from DrRacket

2014-01-05 Thread Christopher
Greetings, racketeers. I have recently completed a port of most a large scripting language program I wrote (large by my standards, which is on the order of tens of thousands of lines of code) into pure Racket from some other scripting language, with the object of getting faster execution. Now