[racket] Is racket suitable for such a project?

I think you mean `racket/init` in the second version, right?

For me, I get (slightly edited for clarity):

$  echo '(exit)' |  time racket -vl racket/base -e '(read-eval-print-loop)'
Welcome to Racket v6.0.0.2.
>
0.02user 0.01system 0:00.03elapsed

vs

$  echo '(exit)' |  time racket -vl racket/init -e '(read-eval-print-loop)'
Welcome to Racket v6.0.0.2.
>
0.14user 0.04system 0:00.18elapsed

Sam


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The Racket VM startup time is longer than it used to be, and I no longer
>> use it often as a quick command-line calculator.  (If filesystem and
>> libraries aren't in Linux caches, it's almost 4 seconds before REPL prompt
>> on my workstation.)  That might not have to be a problem for an
>> onion-router, however, even if you're starting up lots of processes (since
>> you might be able to start worker processes before they're needed).
>>
>
> No on topic, I know, but this is probably because of a different amount of
> code loaded (I'm not sure which version we're comparing against, tho).
>
> You could probably try this if you wish to return those days:
>
>   racket -vl racket/base -e '(read-eval-print-loop)'
>
> For me that starts up about 4x faster (.1 second vs .4 seconds, but on a
> machine that has warm caches) than this:
>
>   racket -vl racket/base -e '(read-eval-print-loop)'
>
> which is roughly an explicated version of the no-command-line arguments
> "racket".
>
> Robby
>
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