bug#34873: 27.0.50; Creating unibyte string in emacs modules

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16 марта 2019 г., в 13:20, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> написал(а):

>> From: lg.zevlg@gmail.com
>> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 11:32:47 +0100
>> Cc: 34873@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> Please explain why you need to create a unibyte string for that.  I
>> guess what's missing is more details regarding what you are trying to
>> do (the single sentence above about :data wasn't enough for me), and
>> how is your module involved in that, in particular why do you need a
>> module to display an image in Emacs.
>> 
>> See this thread https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-03/msg00465.html
> 
> I've read that (I read everything on emacs-devel).  It still doesn't
> tell me enough to answer my questions, unfortunately.

Ok, emacs-ffi is emacs module that implements FFI to shared libraries. wand-mode is package that implements ffi bindings (using emacs-ffi module) to libMagickWand and on top of them powerful image editor is written

wand-mode does many trickery on images in very fast fasion, and it needs method to display previews/results in Emacs buffer. Result of image manipulation is raw rgb(a) data that seats in user-ptr available from imagemagick without any copying. I want `create-image’ with :format ‘image/x-rgb to accept this user-ptr as data to make image creation fast

Method proposed by Stefan with make_string/encode-coding-string works, but its speed is far from being usable on big images.  There is no method just to use data as-is to make things fast


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