On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
On 9-Sep-09, at 10:42 PM, peter lo wrote:
By the way, I am currently trying to reduce the allocation of short- lived objects, I am sure there are general tips on the web about this, but I am not sure if there are tips more specific to Gambit Scheme, taking into account its garbage collector.
I suggest that you represent your "lists" using extensible vectors, implemented with plain vectors.
Or home-grown extensible u8vectors? Or strings (after configuring with --enable-char-size=1)? How many distinct "characters" are being distinguished?
Brad