Re: [dev-serveez] icecast; yet another guile question

[stefan]

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Martin Grabmueller wrote:

> > From: stefan <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:58:19 +0200 (CEST)
> > 
> > My question now:  Is guile file i/o meant to be slow; or did I just use
> > the wrong procedures?
> 
> Of course Guile is not slow on purpose...  The problem is that you
> read data byte-wise, which is slow for whatever language you take...
> 
> In newer Guiles, the procedure `read-string!/partial' can be used to
> read data `en bloc' from a port.  It tries to read as much data as
> told, but may return earlier in case not enough data is available.
> See documentation at:
> 
> http://www.glug.org/docbits/guile-doc-out/html/guile-1.7.0/guile_30.html#SEC319
> 
> If you don't want to depend on newer Guiles, you can maybe take some
> inspiration or code from the C implementation of
> `read-string!/partial'.

Well, exactly this is done via (svz:read-file).  That is; I do not want to
depend on newer Guile versions.  Thanks anyway for the above hint.

Thanks,
        address@hidden