I've been thinking about getting a Pinebook Pro as an inexpensive travelling computer.
I plan to use it for writing.
But I wonder about using Racket on it. DrRacket is one of the tools I use for writing (I write code too, not just English).
It's an ARM64 processor with only 4G of memory running Debian bookworm.
How well does Racket support this?
How much RAM does Racket normally need to function well?
I know Racket functions well on an AMD64 with 16G of RAM. But that's a much bigger machine.
-- hendrik
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I'm using Racket most of the time on Orange Pi 5+ SBC with latest Ubuntu, and it works very well. It works so well that I almost never fire up my big X86 computer running Debian bookworm. However, about 4GB RAM; my Opi5+ has 16GB. But I still do have a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB, and Racket works there as well. What I mean it runs the finished programs without any problems, but I would not use it for programming, because DrRacket is painfully slow on it.
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Even if i used DrRacket seven years ago on a Rasberry Pi (sorry i did not remember the exact model and characteristics) for data instruments acquisition in astronomy i think 4Gb is very limited. Currently on Mac OS i see that one of my program of data science use 1,5Gb of memory for the whole DrRacket process out of 16Gb on the system. So 4Gb is enought if you are sure your Racket application and the system will not use more than 4Gb because after it will pass on swap memory (linux virtual memory on disk) and then the performance will collapse...
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