[racket-dev] Why did DrDr get much slower?

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 13 10:55:20 EDT 2013

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> This slowdown seems to be real on my machine as well --
> realm/chapter2/source.rkt runs more than twice as slow in rev bd09a60e
> as it does in v5.3.5. I'm testing the revision right before
> `filesystem-change-evt` now.

The slowdown is indeed at the revision where `filesystem-change-evt`
was introduced, at least on my Linux x64 machine.

Sam

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