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From: Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About shared substrings (now working)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:21:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074662474.6727.396.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87smiajeut.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 01:59, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se> writes:
> 
> > The reason I have used shared substrings is because of the side
> > effects. I was very happy when the make-shared-substring function
> > was introduced in 93 or 94. This made it possible for me to make
> > tremendous speedups when reading fix length text records and be able
> > to immediately treat the different fields of each record with scheme
> > standard conversion routines.
> 
> Hmm, maybe should be using a more low-level data type than string for
> this kind of raw processing.  Did you consider using uniform byte
> vectors, either from (srfi srfi-4) or from make-uniform-vector?  Just
> a thought...

Yes I did, but make-shared-arrays on strings doesn't give strings back,
so I wouldn't be able to use standard scheme conversion routines anyway.
I guess what you refer to is e.g. (make-uniform-vector 10 #\a) which
gives a string back. On this I can use make-shared-array which gives
a byte vector back. Is there any other type of byte vector I may have
missed?

(of course the approach above only works on text files, for general
fix width format data base files with mixed binary/ascii formats I'm
using special routines in C, but most of the files I'm dealing with
are text files so I'm often using the shared-substring approach.)

/Roland




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      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-18 23:12 About shared substrings (now working) Roland Orre
2004-01-21  0:59 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-21  5:21   ` Roland Orre [this message]

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