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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>
Subject: Re: shared-substrings missing in 1.7
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:24:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wu7rprp3.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rmillo7u2pv.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>

Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
> This is a guile-specific non-R5RS feature, AFAICT.  It seems a bit
> non-Schemely, too, for a mutation of one object to cause another to
> change

Implicit copy-on-write substrings would be nice, though.  Not that I'm
volunteering. :)

>   As I've used shared substrings it is also non trivial to
>   change the code.
>
> So it sounds like you have code that depends on the cross-mutability
> behavior.

No, I think his code simply runs extremely slowly without shared
substrings.


paul


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-16 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-16  8:49 shared-substrings missing in 1.7 Roland Orre
2004-01-16 12:52 ` Marco Parrone
2004-01-16 13:49   ` Roland Orre
2004-01-16 20:29   ` Tom Lord
2004-01-16 19:13 ` Greg Troxel
2004-01-16 20:24   ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2004-01-16 20:35   ` About shared substrings Roland Orre
2004-01-16 21:12     ` Neil Jerram
2004-01-17 22:34       ` Keith Wright
2004-01-16 21:54     ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-01-16 22:00     ` Tom Lord
2004-01-16 20:45   ` shared-substrings missing in 1.7 Tom Lord
2004-01-19 16:54     ` Greg Troxel
2004-01-20  9:02       ` tomas

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