Re: Shared arrays

[Neil Jerram]

Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:

> 2004-10-27  Marius Vollmer  <address@hidden>
>
>         First cut at integrating uniform vectors from srfi-4 with the rest
>         of Guile.  This change replaces scm_tc7_byvect with a s8 uniform
>         vector.  The plan is to gradually replace one type after the other
>         until none is left and then to consider general cleanups and
>         optimizations.
>
> This is great.  Just one comment.  I do hope we'll keep the ability to
> create shared arrays.  This is similar in spirit to list structures
> and mutation-sharing substrings, and extremely useful.
>  
Just for the record (as I know you've already responded on this point), 
I second this.  My application - which I described in the survey thread 
- depends heavily on shared subarrays/subvectors.

Regards,
         Neil