[racket-dev] Release for v5.2 has begun

I reloaded the older version of Racket on my Windows 7 computer and the
radix-2 FFTs run fine there. I also tested both versions on my Macbook Pro
(32 bit) and got the same behavior - correct results (plots) on 5.1.2 and
bad radix-2 results (plots) on 5.1.900.1.
code for the mixed-radix and radix-2. So, it isn't limited to Windows 7 or
64-bit.

Doug

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Doug Williams
<m.douglas.williams at gmail.com>wrote:

> I downloaded the latest pre-release version (5.1.900.1) to update the
> science collection to use the new plot collection. The good news is that
> that went very smoothly. The bad news is that some of my FFT routines seem
> to be getting incorrect numeric results - at least the plots are very bad.
> But, since all of the other plots seem fine, I don't see why these would be
> any different.
>
> So, I suspect that something has changed that affects the numeric
> calculations. It is just the radix-2 FFTs that are having the problem. They
> do some low-level bit fiddling to do the in-place butterfly addressing for
> the FFTs - using things like unsafe-fxlshift (which just looks unfriendly) -
> so, I suspect something there. Are the any recent changes that would affect
> these kinds of fixed-point operations?
>
> I've run the code under a previous version of Racket on a 64-bit Linux
> (Scientific Linux 6.0) computer and a 32-bit Windows XP computer and get
> correct results. So, I don't think it is simply a 32/64 bit problem - unless
> it is limited to 64-bit Windows.
>
> Sorry that was kind of rambling and non-specific, but I was wondering where
> to start looking at the problem or what would help someone else look into
> it.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
>> The release process for v5.2 has begun: the `release' branch was
>> created for any work that is left and is now bumped to v5.1.90.  You
>> can go on using the `master' branch as usual, it is now bumped to
>> v5.2.0.1 (to avoid having two different trees with the same version).
>>
>> If you have any bug-fixes and changes that need to go in the release
>> then make sure to specify that in the commit message or mail me the
>> commit SHA1s.  You can `git checkout release' to try it out directly if
>> needed -- but do not try to push commits on it (the server will forbid
>> it).
>>
>> Please make sure that code that you're responsible for is as stable
>> as possible, and let me know if there is any new work that should
>> not be included in this release.
>>
>>      >> NOW IS THE TIME TO FIX BUGS THAT YOU KNOW ABOUT <<<
>>
>> The time between the `release' branch creation and the actual
>> release is for fixing new errors that prevent proper functioning of
>> major components and that show up during the preparation for a
>> release.  You can also finalize piece of work that is not yet
>> complete, but please avoid merging new features.
>>
>> Note that nightly builds will go on as usual (as v5.2.0.1), and
>> pre-release builds will be available shortly at
>>
>>  http://pre.racket-lang.org/release/
>>
>> Please tell me if you think that this release is significant enough
>> that it should be announced on the users list for wider testing.
>> --
>> Ryan Culpepper
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