On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Patrick Li <patrickli.2...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > > I have only done system programming in assembly and C, and found that I > frequently did a lot of manual placement and shuffling of data in memory, > with the usual pointer tricks. > > Off the top of my head, I do not how those same tasks would be > accomplished in a dynamically typed, and garbage-collected language like > Scheme. Would anyone be able to explain the gist of it? > You use a subset of the language to avoid implicit memory allocation and you use special "subprimitive" operations that are the Scheme equivalent of "peek" and "poke". -- ~jrm
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