[plt-scheme] Re: DrScheme/OLPC Sugar UI

From: Stephen De Gabrielle (spdegabrielle at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 29 14:53:26 EDT 2008

Is it the 'tools'? I switch most of them off on my small machine
(though it's not an xo-1), and DrScheme starts a *lot* faster.

s.


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:32:38 -0500, "Grant Rettke" wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > At Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:05:21 -0500, "Grant Rettke" wrote:
>> >> 2) DrScheme 4.x is too demanding to run on the XO.
>> >
>> > During the build phase --- especially building the docs --- or just
>> > running DrScheme?
>>
>> Just running it.
>>
>> >From a cold boot into the "Sugar" UI my machine only reports 12MB of
>> free memory.
>>
>> DrScheme 3xx works fine, though.
>
> I'm probably missing something. DrScheme v372, DrScheme v4.0.2, and
> DrScheme v4.1.2 all have about the same initial footprint on my
> machine. If anything, the later ones are slightly smaller. I'll
> investigate further when I can.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
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