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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
To: Freja Nordsiek <fnordsie@gmail.com>
Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:31:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tjohdva.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96F78925-F832-40C0-B94A-92E64B34B0EA@gmail.com> (Freja Nordsiek's message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:11:57 +0000")

Freja Nordsiek <fnordsie@gmail.com>:

> I checked the implementation of bytecectors and SRFI-4 in Guile and
> they are definitely not scanned for pointers. But I would say hacking
> them is not a good general solution for this problem. They are good
> and natural data structures for large arrays of numerical data that
> are standard signed/unsigned integers of various fixed sizes and IEEE
> floating point numbers, or structures/unions of these types. Using
> them for things other than that or strings/byte-arrays could be error
> prone, messy, and performance poor.

So no Scheme solution recommended then?


Marko



  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-16 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 131+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-12 23:56 How to make GNU Guile more successful Amirouche
2017-02-13  0:21 ` Amirouche
2017-02-13 11:06 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 12:14   ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 20:20   ` Amirouche
2017-02-13 23:08     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 20:28   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-02-13 20:42     ` Amirouche
2017-02-13 22:34     ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-02-13 23:56       ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-14  0:18         ` David Kastrup
2017-02-14 22:21           ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-15 17:03           ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-02-16 19:18             ` sirgazil
2017-02-16 20:26               ` Amirouche
2017-02-14  5:59         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-02-14 19:36           ` Linas Vepstas
2017-02-14 20:54             ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-02-14 22:20           ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-13 22:54     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-14  9:54       ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-02-14 21:35         ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-01 19:21           ` Amirouche
2017-03-10 20:23             ` Amirouche
2017-07-14 21:54     ` Linas Vepstas
2017-07-14 21:59       ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-15 10:10       ` Jan Wedekind
2017-07-15 12:55         ` Nala Ginrut
2017-07-15 12:58           ` Nala Ginrut
2017-07-15 22:17           ` Jan Wedekind
2017-07-16  9:54             ` Nala Ginrut
2017-07-17 18:52         ` Arun Isaac
2017-07-18 11:22         ` Ernest Adrogué
2017-07-16  8:30       ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-07-16  9:18         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-16 10:11           ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-07-16 10:31             ` Marko Rauhamaa [this message]
2017-07-16 10:39               ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-07-16 10:45                 ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-07-20 15:28       ` Guile bugs Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-20 16:22         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-20 18:26           ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2017-07-20 18:35             ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-20 20:41               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-20 22:23                 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-21  4:05                   ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-21  6:15                     ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-21  8:16                       ` Chris Vine
2017-07-21  8:27                         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-21  9:17                       ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-21 10:08                         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-21 10:22                           ` David Kastrup
2017-09-09 21:14                       ` Linas Vepstas
2017-09-09 22:31                         ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-09-09 23:02                           ` Linas Vepstas
2017-07-21 16:33               ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2017-07-21 17:12                 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-07-21 14:19           ` Matt Wette
2017-09-09 20:30         ` Linas Vepstas
2017-09-10 13:11           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-10 19:56             ` Linas Vepstas
2017-09-11  7:26               ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-11  8:10                 ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-09-11 11:34                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-14 17:54                 ` Linas Vepstas
2017-09-15  7:56                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-19 11:04                     ` Linas Vepstas
2017-09-19 20:18                       ` Chris Vine
2017-09-19 20:21                         ` Chris Vine
2017-09-19 23:39                           ` Nala Ginrut
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-02-18  1:04 How to make GNU Guile more successful sirgazil
     [not found] ` <6315ebf51aec83aaff1c7fbbec685c0b@openmailbox.org>
2017-02-18 15:29   ` sirgazil
2017-02-18 16:55     ` David Pirotte
2017-02-19 18:09       ` sirgazil
2017-02-20  1:00         ` David Pirotte
2017-02-20  6:05 Michael Vehrs
2017-02-20 20:41 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-21  6:01   ` Michael Vehrs
2017-02-21 17:18     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-02-21 18:19       ` Amirouche
2017-02-21 18:31         ` Mike Gran
2017-02-21 18:33           ` Amirouche
2017-02-21 18:41             ` Mike Gran
2017-02-21 18:15     ` Amirouche
2017-02-21 19:25       ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-01 19:25         ` Amirouche
2017-03-03  5:28           ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-03  9:18             ` David Kastrup
2017-03-03 11:30               ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-03 12:19                 ` David Kastrup
2017-03-03 13:35                   ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-04 23:44               ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05  2:05                 ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-05 14:01                   ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-05 14:09                     ` David Kastrup
2017-03-05 14:13                       ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-05 14:27                     ` Thomas Morley
2017-03-03 17:21             ` Matt Wette
2017-03-03 19:09               ` Amirouche
2017-03-03 19:16               ` Amirouche
2017-03-03 19:24                 ` Mike Gran
2017-03-03 20:10                   ` Matt Wette
2017-03-03 20:09                 ` Matt Wette
2017-02-22  5:51     ` Michael Vehrs
2017-03-04 23:41 Alejandro Sanchez
2017-03-05  0:23 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05  8:23   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-05 14:19     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05  3:09 ` Erik Edrosa
2017-03-05 11:57   ` Jan Wedekind
2017-03-07  3:29     ` Erik Edrosa
2017-03-05 14:27   ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-05 16:43     ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-05 23:46       ` Alejandro Sanchez
2017-03-06  9:00         ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-06  1:31       ` Matt Wette
2017-03-07  4:07     ` Erik Edrosa
2017-03-05  9:40 ` David Kastrup
2017-03-10  2:08 Vítor De Araújo
2017-03-10  9:55 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-10 10:03   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-03-10 14:27     ` vbuaraujo
2017-03-10 15:08       ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-03-11  7:19         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-13 15:55           ` Nala Ginrut
2017-03-13 16:14             ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2017-03-10 20:17 ` Amirouche
2017-03-11  0:50   ` Vítor De Araújo
2017-03-11  3:02     ` Vítor De Araújo
2017-03-11  7:42   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-14  3:26 ` Christopher Allan Webber

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