Re: [Chicken-users] Large vector

[felix winkelmann]

On 5/11/07, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Mark Voortman <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > 2. Have you considered the GC implications?
> >
> > There should be no garbage collection. I just load it into memory once and
> > that's it.
>
> Since chicken uses a (generational) stop-and-copy collector, all data
> allocated will be moved from one space to another on every GC.
>
> But it should be possible to create some sort of higher-level abstraction
> on top of non-GCd (but finalized) raw memory. I'll try to come up with
> something.

(This paragraph conflicts with the former - I don't know what I'm talking
about sometimes)

Unless you want numerical vectors (which should be covered with
SRFI-4), all I can currently offer is:

http://chicken.wiki.br/sparse-vectors

(stolen from S48)


cheers,
felix