[Chicken-users] ssax egg

[Bruce Butterfield]

After some discussion with other SSAX users a while back, a change to 
the input parsing code (core.scm in the chicken port) makes it 
thread-safe which is very important to my application. The default code 
uses a static buffer which as you might suspect doesn't work at all well 
in a multi-threaded environment. The updated code replaces 
input-parse:init-buffer as follows:

(define input-parse-buffer (make-parameter #f))

(define input-parse:init-buffer
  (lambda ()
    (or
      (input-parse-buffer)
      (let ((buffer (make-string 512)))
        (input-parse-buffer buffer)
        buffer))))

This code is slower than the default static buffer; perhaps someone 
could think of a clever runtime mechanism to use one mechanism over the 
other???

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