From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marko Rauhamaa Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:31:37 +0300 Message-ID: <878tjohdva.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <87lgtajpkc.fsf@web.de> <87h8ychh9h.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <96F78925-F832-40C0-B94A-92E64B34B0EA@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500201132 16533 195.159.176.226 (16 Jul 2017 10:32:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:32:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org" To: Freja Nordsiek Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 16 12:32:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dWgqK-0003gF-3q for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:32:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWgqM-0002Qd-DS for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:32:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWgpx-0002QM-1Q for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWgpw-0004P8-7o for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508] (port=58372 helo=pacujo.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWgpw-0004On-0C for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: from elektro.pacujo.net (192.168.1.200) by elektro.pacujo.net; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:31:37 +0300 Original-Received: by elektro.pacujo.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:31:37 +0300 In-Reply-To: <96F78925-F832-40C0-B94A-92E64B34B0EA@gmail.com> (Freja Nordsiek's message of "Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:11:57 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:1bc8:1a0:5384:7a2b:cbff:fe9f:e508 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13939 Archived-At: Freja Nordsiek : > 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