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Re: subbytevectors
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: subbytevectors |
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Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:01:51 +0200 |
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On Mon 11 Jun 2012 13:55, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> What about using copying (or rather, copy-on-write) sub-bytevectors to
> start with? That would avoid the aliasing issue; OTOH COW would make
> the implementation more complex.
Not a bad idea. The FFI can still introduce aliasing, though I don't
know if that matters. Alignment is still a problem though. Plus it's a
bit more complexity, though an optimizer should be able to do something
about that.
I'll see how much work an implementation would be.
Andy
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