[plt-scheme] Homogeneous vectors <-> c arrays ?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sun Sep 10 12:21:35 EDT 2006

On Aug 30, Carlos Pita wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I want to know if it's possible to pass srfi-4
> homogeneous vectors using mzc cffi facility.

Look at the Foreign library -- it talks about cvectors that are easy
to pass on to C code, and these are very similar to the srfi-4
homogeneous vectors (which are implemented by the same library).


> Similarly, if the extension api exposes homogeneous
> vectors to C world. Ah, and while at that, is there
> any optimization for heavy inner loops iterating over
> homogeneous arrays? For example, type unsafe
> accesors/setters for the specific vector element type.

No.

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