Behind the scenes of uniform arrays?
Jim Blandy (jimb@red-bean.com)
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 21:11:28 -0500
Yeah, there will always be a way for C code to get at the real bytes
of a uniform array. The SCM_CHARS macro works on uniform vectors, and
SCM_VELTS works for uniform arrays. I think. :)
Strings might get more complicated in the future. There are some nice
tricks you can pull to speed up string-append and substring, and they
tie in with Unicode support. But I assume you're just worried about
byte arrays...