Re: [Chicken-users] utf8 and string-ref performance

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] utf8 and string-ref performance
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:08:28 +0100

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 02:50:23AM +0100, Felix wrote:
>> > 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).
> 
> So that means the locative will stay around while the string itself
> might have been collected?

If it's a weak locative, yes. But dereferencing will signal an
error in this case. But I thought this is about being able to
point into a string? I'm probably confused or didn't fully
understand the original problem.


cheers,
felix