Re: [Chicken-users] string-substitute* slow?

[Daishi Kato]

At Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:34:13 +0200,
felix winkelmann wrote:
> 
> On 4/15/06, Daishi Kato <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was expecting that string-substitute* is
> > faster than calling multiple string-substitute's.
> >
> > But a simple test showed me the opposite result.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> 
> It turns out that simpler code is often faster code... :-)
> I haven't analyzed string-substitute* completely, but it repeatedly
> looped over the the smap again and again, which is unneccessary
> when string-substitute* is expressed solely with string-substitute.
> I have replaced the old version with yours. Moreover it handles
> backreferences and an optional mode argument (like
> string-substitute).

Oh, no. Could there be a better way with string-substitute*?
I don't believe that my workaround is the fastest.
I'll look into the code of string-substitute* later.

Another note is that if the input/output can be ports instead of strings.
An instant look of the code tells me internal procedures except string,
so there would require much work to change that.

Daishi