From c7772cbf085b528d3859f9f11ce9b4496e0fde82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Rafkind Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:04:19 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] note that exe will not improve performance --- collects/scribblings/raco/exe.scrbl | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/collects/scribblings/raco/exe.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/raco/exe.scrbl index 4b2665897a..3dc9ecf26a 100644 --- a/collects/scribblings/raco/exe.scrbl +++ b/collects/scribblings/raco/exe.scrbl @@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ Compiled code produced by @exec{raco make} relies on Racket executables to provide run-time support to the compiled code. However, @exec{raco exe} can package code together with its run-time support to -form an executable, and @exec{raco distribute} can packaged the -executable into a distribution that works on other machines. +form an executable, and @exec{raco distribute} can package the +executable into a distribution that works on other machines. Running +an executable produced by @exec{raco exe} will not improve performance +over @exec{raco make}. -The @exec{raco make} command embeds a module, from source or byte +The @exec{raco exe} command embeds a module, from source or byte code, into a copy of the @exec{racket} executable. (Under Unix, the embedding executable is actually a copy of a wrapper executable.) The created executable invokes the embedded module on startup. The