Re: cannot compile: srfi-10 define-reader-ctor 'hash '#,(

[Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer]

Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes. In my recent tests, I found (assq-ref) was twice as fast as
> (hashq-ref) when there were 100 entries even when I made the hash
> table quite large (1000 entries IIRC).

Do you mean the averages?  For me, accessing the *first* entry of an
alist already seems to be almost as slow as accessing any entry of a
hash table, and accessing the 100th about thrice as slow.

> I couldn't locate those on my guile installation.

They're in (system foreign).

You can hit 'i' in GNU Info to find a variable or other keyword, though
I just had to notice that the intro node on the FFI, "(guile) Foreign
Function Interface", doesn't mention (system foreign).  Our manual seems
to generally lack in telling the user what module needs to be loaded for
what...

Taylan