From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Shared arrays Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:38:33 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4183A769.6020806@ossau.uklinux.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099147191 19458 80.91.229.6 (30 Oct 2004 14:39:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt , guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 30 16:39:39 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CNuOJ-0006jS-00 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:39:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNuWD-0002aK-Fz for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:47:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNuW7-0002aF-8J for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CNuW6-0002a3-Q0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNuW6-0002a0-Kk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CNuNy-0001O7-FX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-130-97-48.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.130.97.48]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD26409FAD; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from ossau.uklinux.net (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035A26F9E5; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 15:38:33 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4310 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4310 Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: >2004-10-27 Marius Vollmer > > First cut at integrating uniform vectors from srfi-4 with the rest > of Guile. This change replaces scm_tc7_byvect with a s8 uniform > vector. The plan is to gradually replace one type after the other > until none is left and then to consider general cleanups and > optimizations. > >This is great. Just one comment. I do hope we'll keep the ability to >create shared arrays. This is similar in spirit to list structures >and mutation-sharing substrings, and extremely useful. > > Just for the record (as I know you've already responded on this point), I second this. My application - which I described in the survey thread - depends heavily on shared subarrays/subvectors. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel