[plt-scheme] Speed up check-syntax

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I think what you're asking is if the parallelism we get from the disk
> and the cpu is already enough to get some speed up here(?). I'm not
> sure.

Is there some way to run a thread after DrScheme finishes starting?  I
know that the first 30 seconds after DrScheme comes up I usually spend
staring at the buffer.

sam th

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> Robby
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> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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>> Could we approximate parallelism with a 'niced' threading model? -- Matthias
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>> On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>>> Then it would slowdown the startup time by that much and people who
>>> don't use check syntax would suffer.
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>>> Robby
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>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jaime Vargas <jev at mac.com> wrote:
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>>>> Why not simple load them on startup?
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>>>> On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>>>>> Sounds like a good task for when we get multicore support. I'll pass
>>>>> that along to James and probably Kevin is reading this message.
>>>>>
>>>>> Robby
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>>>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Matthias Felleisen
>>>>> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I know. It's very slow. Can't we load these indices while the user
>>>>>> types in something?
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>>>>>> On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>>>>>>> The first time you run it, it loads in the documentation indicies.
>>>>>>> That might be it. (Watch the status line at the bottom of the screen
>>>>>>> and see if that's where it looks like the time is going to know for
>>>>>>> sure.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Robby
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>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Matthias Felleisen
>>>>>>> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have noticed this too. The first time around check syntax is indeed
>>>>>>>> painfully slow. The second time+ it is as fast as it used to be.
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi, I'm refactoring some mred code, and I'm finding check syntax has
>>>>>>>>> got painfully slow.
>>>>>>>>> Does anyone else experience this and what strategies do you use to
>>>>>>>>> avoid the problem?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I don't think this is a mred specific issue- just an issue for code
>>>>>>>>> with lots of dependencies.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Stephen
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>>>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Stephen De Gabrielle
>>>>>>>>> stephen.degabrielle at acm.org
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