<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Thanks Matthias.  >From whats been said perhaps the way to go is to make a C wrapper to the C interface to the latest version of ImageMagick and then go through the FFI to interface to Racket. Also someone mentioned the use of parallel processing.  It seems to me that an OCR application would be the ideal application for parallel processing.  I.e. the analysis of one letter is completely independent of the analysis of another letter. So for example if you had a dual core processor with multithreading enabled you could analyse 4 letters concurrently etc. by setting up 4 threads.  Is it possible on a PC (windows or linux) in Racket or in fact in any language (even assembler) to check if it has a multi-core processors and how many cores and/or multi-threading enabled.  In which case you would know how many threads to set up to process letters in parallel? Thanks, Harry Spier > Subject: Re: [racket] Efficiency of tight loops in Racket > From: matthias@ccs.neu.edu > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:12:28 -0500 > CC: eli@barzilay.org; users@racket-lang.org; robby@eecs.northwestern.edu > To: harryspier@hotmail.com > > > It's an experimental package under development for use with teaching materials. It's not ready for anything really -- Matthias (I know, I wrote it) > > > On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Harry Spier wrote: > > > > > I thought I saw somewhere in the Racket documentation a few weeks ago that there is another graphics package in Racket that even has a function to create a binary matrix from a picture. But when I tried to find it yesterday I couldn't (I don't remember the name or where in the documentation I saw it). > > > > Does anyone know what package that could be? > > > > Thanks, > > Harry > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: eli@barzilay.org > > > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:47:24 -0500 > > > To: vasishtha.spier@gmail.com > > > CC: matthias@ccs.neu.edu; users@racket-lang.org; robby@eecs.northwestern.edu; harryspier@hotmail.com > > > Subject: Re: [racket] Efficiency of tight loops in Racket > > > > > > 12 hours ago, Harry Spier wrote: > > > > 2) interface to ImageMagick (which I use to create my binary page > > > > representation) > > > > > > Note BTW that the ImageMagick interface that comes with racket was > > > made as an example for an interface, so it wasn't kept up to date with > > > the current API. (I don't know what changed, but given that a number > > > of years have passed, I'm guessing that updates are needed.) > > > > > > -- > > > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > > > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > </body> </html>