[plt-scheme] frtime slowing down

From: Gregory Cooper (greg at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 22 19:02:11 EDT 2008

Is it still doing the same thing as before (getting increasingly
slow), or are there just occasional long garbage-collection pauses?
The former should be fixed, but if it's the latter, then v4 isn't
going to fix it (and I doubt there's any simple fix).

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
> That works, but I'm getting big glitchy slowdowns - time to upgrade :)
>
>
>
>  On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:17 -0400, Gregory Cooper wrote:
>  > You should run
>  >
>  > bin/setup-plt -l frtime
>  >
>  > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
>  > > Hi Greg,
>  > >
>  > >  Do I need to recompile stuff too? Not sure how to do that...
>  > >  I get:
>  > >
>  > >  compile: variable not provided (directly or indirectly and at the
>  > >  expected position) from module:
>  > >  |,/usr/local/lib/plt/collects/frtime/frp-core| in: super-lift
>  > >
>  > >  Don't spend too much time on this, I should probably start working on v4
>  > >  anyway.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:37 -0400, Gregory Cooper wrote:
>  > >  > Hi Dave,
>  > >  >
>  > >  > I'm attaching a diff for v372, which you should be able to apply by
>  > >  > going into collects/frtime and running:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > patch -p0 <ftfix372.diff
>  > >  >
>  > >  > At some point you'll probably want to upgrade to v4, since it has
>  > >  > quite a few improvements over 372.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Let me know if this doesn't work.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Cheers,
>  > >  > Greg
>  > >  >
>  > >  > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
>  > >  > > Thanks! - is there a way I can retrofit the fix into 372, or will it be
>  > >  > >  best for me to upgrade to v4?
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 23:19 -0400, Gregory Cooper wrote:
>  > >  > >  > Hi Dave,
>  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > This was a bug.  Thanks for pointing me at it; it should be fixed in
>  > >  > >  > svn now.  Let me know if you still encounter any such problems.
>  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > Greg
>  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
>  > >  > >  > > Hi Greg, all,
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  Why does the following code slowly use more and more cpu? I'm assuming
>  > >  > >  > >  that although visually the circles are being removed, something remains
>  > >  > >  > >  which is getting processed.
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  (require (lib "animation.ss" "frtime"))
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  (define (metro tick)
>  > >  > >  > >   (let ((tick (floor (* tick 1000))))
>  > >  > >  > >     (when-e (> (modulo (floor milliseconds) tick) (/ tick 2)))))
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  (define (truncate-list lst count)
>  > >  > >  > >   (cond
>  > >  > >  > >     ((zero? count) '())
>  > >  > >  > >     ((null? lst) '())
>  > >  > >  > >     (else (cons (car lst) (truncate-list (cdr lst) (- count 1))))))
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  (display-shapes
>  > >  > >  > >   (list
>  > >  > >  > >   (collect-b
>  > >  > >  > >    (metro 0.1) '()
>  > >  > >  > >    (lambda (e lst)
>  > >  > >  > >      (cons (make-circle (make-posn 50 (+ 50 (integral 0.2))) 10 "red")
>  > >  > >  > >            (truncate-list lst 4))))))
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  cheers,
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  dave
>  > >  > >  > >
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