I'm just adding noise, but I just wanted to thank you for sharing your
plans, it's much appreciated, even when we don't answer in general.

Yep, told you so. Noise :)

Le jeu. 30 juil. 2020 à 14:46, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> With the improvements in the upcoming v7.8 release, Racket CS provides
> all of the functionality of Racket BC (the current default
> implementation). Also, end-to-end performance measurements
> increasingly favor Racket CS. For example, Racket CS now builds a
> distribution slightly faster and in slightly less memory than Racket
> BC:
>
>    https://build-plot.racket-lang.org/
>
>    https://build-plot-cs.racket-lang.org/
>
> It's time to consider shifting the Racket release to use Racket CS as
> the default --- while Racket BC will remain an option for a long time
> to come.
>
> We (the release managers) propose the following rule to trigger the
> switch to Racket CS in the default distribution:
>
>    Between this release and the next, if Racket CS testing and use
>    uncover no bugs that are more serious than ones typically discovered
>    for Racket BC, then Racket CS becomes the default for the next
>    release.
>
> At the earliest, the switch would happen with the release *after* the
> soon-to-be-released v7.8. Our expectation is that the switch would
> happen with the next release (in October), but we'll see how that
> expectation lines up with reality.
>
> This rule is somewhat subjective, in that "more serious" and "typical"
> are in the eye of the beholder, but we keep a close eye on the results
> of the pkg-build service as well as Racket tests. We'll also count
> performance problems as bugs, so Racket CS must not have substantial
> known performance problems relative to Racket BC.
>
> Jay, John, Matthew, Matthias, Robby, Ryan, Sam, and Vincent
> (the release managers)
>
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