From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: GH replacement proposal (includes a bit of Unicode) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 23:44:59 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <877jvan2xw.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <877jw87hjv.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <408B6EAF.4030008@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084832321 25351 80.91.224.253 (17 May 2004 22:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 22:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Rob Browning Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 00:18:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPqRP-00030I-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 00:18:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPqMG-0006Ih-8q for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:13:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPqJU-0005BQ-UU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPpux-0007f7-0K for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 17:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.253.8.218] (helo=mail.dokom.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPpuw-0007f2-F1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 17:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway45.dip121.dokom.de ([195.138.45.121] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 1BPpxg-0004xC-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 23:47:53 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 8723 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 2004 21:44:59 -0000 Original-To: Dirk Herrmann In-Reply-To: <408B6EAF.4030008@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> (Dirk Herrmann's message of "Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:54:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:3735 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3735 Dirk Herrmann writes: > I can not understand at all, why we should introduce such a concept > from the start: The non-locking related API allows users to do all > they could want to do. Locking is only introduced to avoid performance > problems due to memory allocation when extracting string > contents. This early optimization is done at the wrong time. Yes, I'm now convinced that this part of the proposal is premature. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel