[r6rs-discuss] Strings as codepoint-vectors: bad

From: Thomas Lord <lord>
Date: Mon Mar 19 01:36:02 2007

Jason Orendorff wrote:
>
> One does not write portable code that manipulates text and then run it
> on a different implementation when one wants rope-like performance
> instead of conventional string-like performance.


Aren't they the same, albeit at slightly different scales, except in those
cases where rope-like is always better? Because, isn't "conventional
string-
like" an incomplete, degenerate rope implementation half-hidden in
VM OS code?

"yes"
-t
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 01:45:35 UTC