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: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:59:26 +0300 Message-ID: <878tjqissh.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> References: <87lgtajpkc.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500069858 15562 195.159.176.226 (14 Jul 2017 22:04:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 22:04:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org" To: Linas Vepstas Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 15 00:04:14 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 1dW8gz-0003a6-W2 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:04:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dW8h3-00044L-WC for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:04:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dW8gj-00043y-R0 for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:03:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dW8gg-0006Yc-Oa for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: from pacujo.net ([83.150.83.132]:36164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dW8gg-0006XA-GI for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 18:03:50 -0400 Original-Received: from elektro.pacujo.net (192.168.1.200) by elektro.pacujo.net; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:59:26 +0300 Original-Received: by elektro.pacujo.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:59:26 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Linas Vepstas's message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:54:45 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 83.150.83.132 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:13919 Archived-At: Linas Vepstas : > String handling in guile is a disaster area: If I give it a > 10-megabyte-long string in utf8, it promptly tries to convert all of > that string in utf32, for utterly pointless reasons. This just makes > it slow. It's not only the conversion. Strings should be bytes. Python3's example shouldn't have been followed. Marko