[racket] drracket editor running too slow

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 28 14:54:38 EDT 2011

If you have a chance, can you try 5.1 under 10.10 just to see if the
bug is happily already fixed?

Robby

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 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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