Re: propose deprecation of generalized-vector-*

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Daniel,

On Wed 23 Jan 2013 10:06, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue 22 Jan 2013 15:31, Daniel Llorens <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Jan 21, 2013, at 17:11, Andy Wingo wrote:
>>
>> The patch attached applies over yours and is to document this function
>> and a couple others in the manual.
>
> Thanks, applied and pushed to wip-generalized-vectors.

I'll merge this branch shortly, as there have been no objections.

>> Maybe we should have scm_array_ref_1, scm_array_ref_2, etc. as it is
>> done for some other functions taking rest lists. I can write a patch
>> for that.
>
> For C, that makes sense.  Something should be done for Scheme as well,
> but it's not terribly urgent.  Perhaps make scm_array_ref not be bound
> to "array-ref", and instead bind "array-ref" to some function that takes
> two optional arguments and a rest argument.  A poor man's case-lambda...

I have implemented this in stable-2.0.  It should speed up array
operations from Scheme significantly.

Andy
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