Re: [Chicken-users] Faster read for custom input ports?

[Thomas Chust]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, ReedSheridan wrote:

> [...] Is there a way to read a port which, at a low level, will call 
> FCGX_GetStr(str,some_large_number,streamp) ? [...]

Hello,

as far as I know, nearly all the CHICKEN input boils down to repeated 
calls to read-char. But you may get quite a performance boost if you let 
your custom input ports do some buffering. An example how to do that can 
be seen in the source of CHICKEN's tcp unit.

The output on the other hand happens in somewhat larger units by default 
in CHICKEN.

cu,
Thomas