[racket] drracket editor running too slow

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 28 14:45:29 EDT 2011

I have 10.10 on a machine at home, and I don't see the problem described either.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I didn't see any problems with a 10.04 VM in the latest Racket either
> and, sadly, my version of parallels doesn't run 10.10. I've got an
> order in for the new version, but it may be a while before I get time
> to try more.
>
> Robby
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Erich Rast <erich at snafu.de> wrote:
>> Just for the record, I've been using a one-week old version nightly
>> built of 5.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 daily during last week and didn't
>> experience any slowdowns. (on a reasonably fast 2.6 GHz i7 920 with 6GB
>> RAM, though)
>>
>> So the slowdown must be specific to Ubuntu 10.10 or your configuration.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Erich
>>
>>
>>> I am having a problem with my drracket editor running extremely slow.
>> I am
>>> using ubuntu 10.10.  I downloaded the latest version of racket (5.1) I
>> used
>>> to have (5.0).  Ever since then my editor is super slow.  I don't know
>> if
>>> their is coincidence or the reason why.   For example, I try to
>> highlight 3
>>> lines of code in the drracket editor and it literally takes 6 seconds
>> to
>>> finishing highlighting!(I click and drag the mouse).  If I hit enter
>> say 20
>>> times then it takes close to a minute to execute all of the enter
>> commands.
>>> The bottom part of running the program is fast, it is just the top
>> part
>>> (editor) that is slow.  Does anyone know what the problem might be?
>>
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