Hi! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> As a thought experiment, I don't see why things should have to slow > down. Master has `scm_c_take_gc_bytevector', which can be used to wrap > the existing scm_t_port::write_buf, ::read_buf, and ::putback_buf > members. At the cost of three allocations per port and three words per > allocation (bytevector tag, length, and pointer), we could give access > to these internal buffers to Scheme without affecting the C code at all. > > We could go farther and allocate the buffers as bytevectors directly, > which would entail an additional indirection for C to get at the length > and data, but the length and data would all be contiguous anyway so in > practice I don't see it being too bad. Yes, that seems doable. What was the initial goal already? Ludo’.
