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Re: bitvector efficiency


Well, I think I should put my XDR extension into the contrib directory
soon. I need little time to package it properly; in the meantime, if
someone needs it, please contact me. It allows GUILE to talk to C/C++
programs in a heterogeneous environment.

Aleksandar

> 
> 
> To make Guile talk binary protocols, you'd really like something like
> Perl's pack/unpack.  At the moment, Guile doesn't have anything like
> that.  Guile has bitvectors, but I don't think it converts them to
> strings easily.
> 
> However, it should be easy to write functions to pack and unpack
> network packets in C that are callable from Scheme.
> 


-- 
Aleksandar Bakic, Comp.Sci. graduate student at Michigan State University
e-mail: bakicale@cps.msu.edu