Update the Guide's performance section with current information for
Racket CS, and also document the Racket CS compilation mode and
inspection environment variables. Make a couple of environment
variables work more consistently: PLTDISABLEGC for CS and PLT_ZO_PATH
for BC.
When a stand-alone executable created by `raco exe` needs to load
modules that start with a `#lang` line, there have been various
obstacles to adding the right run-time support via `++lib`. The
`++lang` flag addresses those problems and makes it easy to indicate
that enough should be embedded to support loading modules with a
specified language.
There are problems in the way that various handlers interact for the
"lang/reader.rkt" versus `(submod "." reader)` search path that
converts a language name to a reader. To accomodate the search in a
standalone executable (that does not provide access to collections in
general), the module name resolver must refrain from raising an
exception for a non-existent submodule path that refers to a
non-existent collection.
This commit merges changes that were developed in the "racket7" repo.
See that repo (which is no longer modified) for a more fine-grained
change history.
The commit includes experimental support for running Racket on Chez
Scheme, but that "CS" variant is not built by default.