Re: a passionate guy who want to join in as a developer

2012-08-13 Thread nalaginrut
On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 22:31 +0800, rushan chen wrote: Hi Mark, Very appreciate for your reply. I see you mention that it's useful to implement a larger library of efficient data structure, and I'm interested in that very much. I used to work on projects which involve complicated but very

Re: a passionate guy who want to join in as a developer

2012-08-13 Thread Tristan Colgate
[Meant to send this to the list] There's an implementation of a trie in guile-snmp, but it's one of the first things I wrote in scheme and is pretty hideous. I keep meaning to redo it using records instead of GOOPs. I'd ask for code review, but, to be honest, I didn't really have a clue what I

Re: a passionate guy who want to join in as a developer

2012-08-13 Thread rushan chen
Hi nalaginrut, Thanks for your reply. I'd like to start with the vlist implementation Mark mentioned previously, it would be cool if this can help speed up the compiler. But since I'm new here, would anybody be kind enough to give me some clue on how to integrate a c-version vlist into current

Optimizing vlists

2012-08-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: Here's one specific data structure idea: we have a vlist data structure, currently written in Scheme, but in my opinion it would be useful to rewrite it in C for better efficiency. FWIW, I’m not convinced that this is a fruitful approach. First,