[racket] Racket v5.3.3

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 25 13:15:35 EST 2013

FWIW, I'm not ignoring your reports of crashes on 64-bit Windows, but I
haven't yet done enough work on it. I'm still looking for a way to
provoke crashes, and the thought that the debugger might be relevant is
helpful.

At Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:08:59 -0800, Joe Gilray wrote:
> I had a problem with my test code that led me to believe that the 64-bit
> version of 5.3.3 was faster than the 32-bit version... to paraphrase SNL
> from the good old days: "never mind."
> 
> I still do see crashes on the 64-bit version and not on 32-bit:  The
> crashes still seem random, but do seem to occur more often in the debugger.
> 
> Regards,
> -Joe
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Joe Gilray <jgilray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone else noticed that the 64-bit version on Win7 is faster than the
> > 32-bit version?
> >
> > I thought that the longer pointers were supposed to slow down execution.
> >
> > BTW, still seeing some crashes on 64-bit and none on 32-bit
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > -Joe
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Joe Gilray <jgilray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Racketeers,
> >>
> >> I am still seeing crashes on Win7 64bit with 5.3.3.  About every 6 hours
> >> or so I get "program not responding" (doesn't seem to correlate to anything
> >> in particular).
> >>
> >> Haven't seen it on Win7 32 bit.
> >>
> >> -Joe
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Racket version 5.3.3 is now available from
> >>>
> >>>   http://racket-lang.org/
> >>>
> >>> This is a bug-fix release to address a flaw in DrRacket v5.3.2
> >>> concerning interactions between the contour window and the syntax
> >>> coloring.
> >>>
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