Freja Nordsiek <fnord...@gmail.com>: > I checked the implementation of bytecectors and SRFI-4 in Guile and > they are definitely not scanned for pointers. But I would say hacking > them is not a good general solution for this problem. They are good > and natural data structures for large arrays of numerical data that > are standard signed/unsigned integers of various fixed sizes and IEEE > floating point numbers, or structures/unions of these types. Using > them for things other than that or strings/byte-arrays could be error > prone, messy, and performance poor.
So no Scheme solution recommended then? Marko
