Re: [Chicken-users] using mmap files as strings?

[Felix]

From: Alaric Snell-Pym <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] using mmap files as strings?
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:22:01 +0000

> Then have blobs, strings, srfi-4 vectors, and friends all have the
> option of being a reference to one of the above with an offset and
> limit, so they can be views into arbitrary data from external sources.

That's the problem: all primitives on those objects have to check
whether they have to handle such a "view" object. Handling these
special cases are too costly and prohibit optimizations.


cheers,
felix