Re: [Chicken-users] Blobs: a (modest?) proposal

[felix winkelmann]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> What do people think of this? Would it be welcome in the chicken core
> once it's proven itself?
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Sure. The use of strings for binary data is indeed something that should
be reduced. There is also a lot of copying involved. But one has to be
careful not to re-implement memory management completely: Use
srfi-4 bytevectors where appropriate and blobs where the data is
truly opaque (but I guess this is self-evident).


cheers,
felix