Re: Faster binary IO, please?

[David Kastrup]

Mario Lang <address@hidden> writes:

>
> Through the last 4 years of Emacs Lisp coding, I've come across the need
> to read and/or write binary data from time to time.  Mostly when doing
> network process IO, but recently also reading binary data from a buffer.
> I've managed to solve all obstacles so far, and wrote the necessary
> utility functions to read all sorts of binary data types.  However,
> these tricks in elisp space imply slow code, and since these are IO
> functions, the slowness really counts.  This mail is basically a plea
> for some improvement in Emacs regarding binary IO.  I know we operate
> on textual data 99% of the time, but at times, it is just necessary
> to operate on binary data if one wants to keep Emacs as the wonderful
> and generic working environment that it is.
>
> Below are all the binary data IO functions I've had to write so far.
> If you could have a look please and:
>  1. possibly suggest a speedup in the functions as they are now
> or
>  2. implement some of them as a primitive in C

Have you taken a look at define-ccl-program?  You could probably do
quite a bit of processing with that.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum