[racket] TR memory optimization: 240 Bytes of garbage for calling TR?

On Nov 11, 2012, at 2:48 PM, John Clements wrote:

>> 
>> I'm not sure why this would be.  Is the code students write unrestricted?
> 
> Pretty much, yes. So, for instance, a student might write:
> 
> (signal-play 
> (network ()
>          [s ((looper song2))]
>          [ctr ((loop-ctr 0 1))]
>          [on? (toggle ctr)]
>          [out (reverb s)]))
> 
> where the signals take on float, boolean, or any kind of value. This expands into something containing this "inner loop" procedure:
> 
> (lambda ()
>  (define s (n1))
>  (define ctr (n2))
>  (define on? (toggle ctr))
>  (define out (reverb s))
>  (set! saved-s s)
>  (set! saved-ctr ctr)
>  (set! saved-on? on?)
>  (set! saved-out out)
>  out)
> 
> It would be pretty hard to assign types any tighter than "any" to these rhs expressions.


John, are the students really writing code w/o constraints? Would it be much of an imposition to ask for base types? 
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