Re: string vs list processing

[Michael Livshin]

Sascha Ziemann <address@hidden> writes:

> Is it right, that in Guile list processing is much faster than string
> processing?

"processing" is not precise enough.

it is certainly true that consing new pairs is *much* faster than
consing new strings, since the latter involves calling `malloc'.

that seems to explain your results.

> Or is it possible that the above result could be caused
> by the way I have compiled or installed Guile?

probably not.

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