From: Peter Bex <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] utf8 and string-ref performance Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:15:49 +0100
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:13:10PM +0100, Felix wrote: >> > With cons cells you should be able to implement this efficiently enough. >> > We don't have anything like string-pointers which can store arbitrary >> > indices in a string AFAIK. That would be useful to have, I guess. >> >> How should that look? Would locatives be useful here? > > I'm afraid this is just the "shared substring/blob" structure proposal > in another guise. I don't know if locatives are useful; those can't > really be kept around for a long time, can they? > Sorry, I don't understand? They are not invalidated by GC (in case you mean that). cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
