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To expand a bit on "bloat," DrRacket does use a lot of memory for a text editor (don't have it installed ATM but I remember 100s of megabytes of memory in use i
by ANTSANTS 12y ago
To expand a bit on "bloat," DrRacket does use a lot of memory for a text editor (don't have it installed ATM but I remember 100s of megabytes of memory in use in a typical light session of 1 file + 1 REPL), crashes somewhat frequently (a couple times in my test run, usually when trying out some of the crazier features hidden in the menus), and becomes less than responsive due to very frequent GC pauses (that are helpfully indicated by a little recycling icon in the corner of the window).
I still think it's a far superior way to introduce newbies to Scheme than emacs, but it's definitely flawed.
- agumonkey 12y agoThe old DrScheme editor was quite light, enough for me not to ever complain on underpowered AMD Sempron machine we had in college. The rewritten DrRacket really feels sluggish sometimes. I ended up using Emacs/Geiser for a MOOC.
- spdegabrielle 12y agoIt comes with 'batteries included', and the defaults work fine on most modern machines. If you are really resource constrained it's easy to go to the settings and restrict memory use, and turn off tools you don't intend to use. If you have a really slow machine there is even a minimal DrRacket.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoMy Ivy Bridge i7 with 16 gigs of RAM is not exactly resource constrained. I'll take your word for it that you can disable features to get the resource usage down, but it's kinda sad that the default config can't run without stuttering on a machine like that, especially since the program is intended to be used in education where the average machine is significantly less powerful than that.
- leoc 12y agoSeveral batteries are missing, while others are leaking a bit.