From: Steve Tell <tell@telltronics.org>
Cc: Guile Mailing List <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Uniform vectors, user survey
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:50:29 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0410252240260.19789@ariel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ljfz46vnrb.fsf@troy.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to unify our two implementations of uniform vectors, and make
> them more useful.
In general, sounds like a good idea.
> I have close to zero experience with using uniform vectors myself, so
> I appreciate your input. Do you use uniform vectors? What for? Did
> you try but couldn't make them work for you? What do you wish would
> be different about them? Etc.
In a quick survey of my code, I've always used uniform vectors to
store scheme objects (booleans or lists) an never for the 10 numeric types
allowed by srfi-4 vectors.
I remember chosing uniform vectors over the related vector and array
types when I knew that the length wouldn't change and the types were all,
well, uniform. The vector and uniform-vector procedures seemed a bit
simpler than the array ones, but (non-uniform) vectors or arrays would
probably have worked.
I've never used uniform vectors as part of an interface to C code. I don't
think the documentation covered the srfi4 back when I first wrote many of
the things I surveyed.
Steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 2:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 14:19 Uniform vectors, user survey Marius Vollmer
2004-10-23 14:02 ` Neil Jerram
2004-10-24 16:04 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-10-25 18:08 ` Stephen Compall
2004-10-25 18:34 ` Peter Christopher
2004-10-25 19:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2004-10-25 22:00 ` Mike Gran
2004-10-26 2:50 ` Steve Tell [this message]
2004-11-04 17:48 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-11-05 17:01 ` Marius Vollmer
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2004-10-26 3:03 Roland Orre
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