Re: I/O bottlenecks in Guile
Jim Blandy (jimb@cyclic.com)
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 02:53:05 -0500
>I don't think there's much point in trying to optimize the use of
>scm_gen_getc at present, since it has been proposed to replace the use
>of stdio in libguile with a custom library.
The current implementation is fine in many ways, but it is not
apparently designed much for speed or orthogonality.
If anyone wants to look into this, Roland McGrath tells me that the
iostream class in libg++ is a good model.