[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Han-Wen Nienhuys) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] >>This second modification has a nice effect: it can significantly reduce >>the number of objects created at load-time. Unfortunately, Guile's >>built-in reader always produces Scheme strings (in `scm_read_token ()') >>so it cannot benefit from this optimization. > > Why isn't it possible to write a > > take_symbol_from_string() > > which takes the C-string inside the SCM string, and sets the data of > the SCM string to NULL? Or am I missing wrt to shared strings? I'd say because the underlying `stringbuf' cannot be shared between a symbol and a string. Theoretically, it should be doable but we'd have to generalize things like `scm_i_string_writable_chars ()' so that it works also for symbols. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
