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

[Kon Lovett]

Or maybe Michael Sperber's srfi-79.

Best Wishes,
Kon


On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:18 PM, felix winkelmann wrote:

> On 2/7/06, Reed Sheridan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The C function that my fastcgi library uses to read input has the  
> > prototype:
> >
> > int FCGX_GetStr(char *str, int n, FCGX_Stream *stream);
> >
> > I have defined a custom input port with make-input-port that uses  
> > this, but
> > the read procedure provided by this only reads one byte at a  
> > time.  This is
> > too inefficient, so I'm forced to provide a separate read function  
> > which
> > breaks the port abstraction, which I'd rather not do (especially  
> > since I
> > want code to be portable from any *cgi protocol).  Is there a way  
> > to read a
> > port which, at a low level, will call
> > FCGX_GetStr(str,some_large_number,streamp) ?
>
> In fact, a read-string method for port objects (ports are basically  
> just
> a collection of procedures) is already on my todo-list, but I just  
> don't
> get around doing this.
>
> I think Thomas is right: perhaps you can read in advance in your  
> custom
> port and keep an intermediate buffer?
>
>
> cheers,
> felix
>
>
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