Re: SRFIs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Arne Babenhauserheide <address@hidden> skribis:

> Christopher Howard <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Do the SRFIs typically require any C hacking? It seems in Guile there
>> is usually a C function for each built-in scheme function, but I'm not
>> sure how that applies to SRFIs.
>
> Most should not, but they do need good mapping to the performance
> characteristics of Guile, so you’ll need some experimenting to get them
> just right.

In practice the C code base in libguile is mostly concerned with libc
bindings, the VM, and other low-level things, not with high-level Scheme
APIs typically found in SRFIs.

So don’t worry, no C involved.  :-)

Ludo’.