>> I discovered that 'scm_unget_byte' is kind of dumb. It puts the
> bytes
>> at the beginning of the pushback buffer instead of the end. This means
>> that every time you unget a byte, it has to shift up the existing
>> contents of the buffer, so ungetting N bytes takes O(N^2) time.
>>
>> This patch implements a function 'scm_unget_bytes' that enables
> large
>> buffers to be unread efficiently. It keeps the bytes at the end of the
>> buffer instead of the beginning, but it can cope if some external code
>> manipulates the pushback buffer by hand and puts the bytes at the
>> beginning.
Have you checked that it works with gnome-vfs-port in guile-gnome?
It is true that none of Guile's clients ever look at putback_buf?
-Mike
