Re: Uniform vectors, user survey

[Neil Jerram]

Marius Vollmer wrote:

> Hi,
>  
Hi Marius

> I want to unify our two implementations of uniform vectors, and make
> them more useful.
>  
Sounds like a good objective.

> I have close to zero experience with using uniform vectors myself, so
> I appreciate your input.  Do you use uniform vectors?  What for?  Did
> you try but couldn't make them work for you?  What do you wish would
> be different about them?  Etc.
>  
I use uniform byte vectors in my Guile extension to an application whose 
interfaces are all expressed in terms of C structs, so that I can build 
the struct (represented as a uniform byte vector) in Scheme and then 
call a C function that does the generic "dispatch this struct" operation.

I could now rewrite this using a SMOB instead (and arguably should, as 
that would give me better control over how the struct memory is shared 
between C and Scheme), but that would have slowed down my prototyping, 
and at the time it was very nice to get something up and running quickly.

Hope this is useful.

Regards,
Neil