Re: bitvector efficiency

Aleksandar Bakic (bakicale@cps.msu.edu)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:22:06 -0500 (EST)

Well, I think I should put my XDR extension into the contrib directory
soon. I need little time to package it properly; in the meantime, if
someone needs it, please contact me. It allows GUILE to talk to C/C++
programs in a heterogeneous environment.

Aleksandar

>
>
> To make Guile talk binary protocols, you'd really like something like
> Perl's pack/unpack. At the moment, Guile doesn't have anything like
> that. Guile has bitvectors, but I don't think it converts them to
> strings easily.
>
> However, it should be easy to write functions to pack and unpack
> network packets in C that are callable from Scheme.
>

-- 
Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu