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Re: Guile Binary Format 0.1
From: |
Dirk Herrmann |
Subject: |
Re: Guile Binary Format 0.1 |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:44:38 +0100 (MET) |
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Matthew R Wette wrote:
> What if the binary port uses a hash table of previously written
> cells and one writes out the table and replaces references to
> cons cells with references to entries in the hash table. Then
> when the file is read in the cells are generated only once.
Yes, that's a way to implement it. However, the current solution does not
provide a 'binary port', but just two operations 'binary-write' and
'binary-read'. Changing this into a binary-port style is not too
difficult per se, only guile's port subtype system is not too well suited
(IMO) for such 'strange' kinds of ports.
Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann