From: Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
Subject: Re: Shared Substrings [was: Worrying development]
Date: 22 Jan 2004 11:26:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n08fg7pw.fsf_-_@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400FF648.3080706@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de>
Dirk Herrmann <dirk@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de> writes:
>
> Shared substrings as they have been provided by guile could have
> served two purposes:
>
> 1) saving resources (run time and memory)
>
> 2) communicating changes via something like a shared memory interface
It seems to me that the second case would be better served via a
more formally designed shared memory API.
As for the first case, that's just a performance hack. True, some very
interesting examples have been given in which that performance hack has
been useful--but wouldn't it be better to work on improving the
performance of strings in general? If an application really does need
the hack, wouldn't it be better for the author to write his own
extensions in C rather the cluttering up guile proper with what the
uninitiated might perceive as integral functionality?
--
Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
Politicians and nappies should both be changed at regular intervals, and
for exactly the same reason.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 9:41 Worrying development Roland Orre
2004-01-16 11:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-16 11:34 ` Roland Orre
2004-01-24 22:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-16 11:59 ` tomas
2004-01-18 21:05 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-18 21:58 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-22 16:11 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-22 18:26 ` Robert Uhl [this message]
2004-01-22 18:42 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 11:45 ` Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 17:16 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 21:01 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-23 22:18 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-24 0:27 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-24 0:53 ` Tom Lord
2004-01-23 22:28 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-24 12:09 ` rm
2004-01-24 13:29 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-01-26 2:42 ` overriding car/cdr (was: Worrying development) Paul Jarc
2004-02-08 16:21 ` overriding car/cdr Dirk Herrmann
2004-02-08 18:09 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-02-08 20:56 ` Paul Jarc
2004-03-20 22:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:05 ` David Van Horn
2004-03-22 21:03 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-22 17:24 ` Paul Jarc
2004-01-23 22:37 ` Worrying development Dirk Herrmann
2004-01-23 23:25 ` Tom Lord
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