[racket-users] Futures Mandelbrot Example

2016-12-23 Thread 'Royall Spence' via Racket Users
Copying the code from the futures mandelbrot example doesn't seem to work in the way it's explained. The futures visualizer window shows the two threads switching back and forth with short intervals of work followed by a sync. This happens in DrRacket 6.7 on both OSX and Linux. At first I thoug

Re: [racket-users] Futures Mandelbrot Example

2016-12-21 Thread Robby Findler
Nothing has changed, but the future's implementation is currently defeated by the errortrace annotation (via the "Debugging" option in the "Show Details" part of the dialog you get after choosing the "Language | Choose Language ..." menu item). More generally, the section 19.1 applies to futures:

[racket-users] Futures Mandelbrot Example

2016-12-21 Thread 'Royall Spence' via Racket Users
In the parallelism section of the guide (https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parallelism.html), there's a Mandelbrot set example demonstrating parallel computation with futures. I've tried it on two different machines (with OSX and Linux) but I don't seem to get any parallel computation. The fut