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Re:Racket v5.3 by i_s on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @05:43PM (#4352496)
Does racket have real threading? Will it use multiple cores?
Re:Racket v5.3 by takikawa on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @10:25PM (#4353542)
There are two features that take advantage of hardware parallelism: futures & places, which work at different granularities. You can find the guide entry on them here: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/performance.html#(part._ef...

There are also green threads for concurrency: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/concurrency.html