[racket] Macro + function automation

From: Vincent St-Amour (stamourv at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 11 10:48:23 EDT 2013

At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:45:44 -0400,
Carl Eastlund wrote:
> Racket will do many pure calculations at compile-time, without any work on
> your part.  I don't know exactly what it will and won't do.  I know the
> Typed Racket optimization coach will help you make use of the extra
> optimizations that Typed Racket performs, but I don't know what it tells
> you about the core Racket optimizer.

Currently, the only optimization from the core Racket optimizer that the
Optimizaton Coach reports is inlining. It would be nice to have it also
report whether constant folding (and other optimizations) is happening.
That's added to my to-do list.

Vincent

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