In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >The patch below does two things: > >1. It introduces `scm_take_locale_symbol ()'. > >2. It modifies `scm_from_locale_symbol ()' so that it doesn't create a > Scheme string to do the job. > >This second modification has a nice effect: it can significantly reduce >the number of objects created at load-time. Unfortunately, Guile's >built-in reader always produces Scheme strings (in `scm_read_token ()') >so it cannot benefit from this optimization.
Why isn't it possible to write a take_symbol_from_string() which takes the C-string inside the SCM string, and sets the data of the SCM string to NULL? Or am I missing wrt to shared strings? _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
