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

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 29 13:51:05 EDT 2008

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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