Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] Faster ports.

[Matt Birkholz]

> From: Matt Birkholz <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:32:02 -0700
> 
> [...]
>       The system's ports never copy, so the "xstring" implementation
>       should be slightly worse, yet was actually slightly better.  I
>       had accidentally included
> 
>             (integrate-external "string")
> 
>       in the "xstring" genio.scm.  The increase in the size of
>       genio.bin/com could go without saying, so... too much said
>       already.  (I WILL say: We could use that declaration.)

Oops.  I tried to reproduce the effect and failed.  Adding or removing
an (integrate-external "string") declaration to genio.scm did not make
a 2% difference -- it's in the noise.  Serves me right for trying to
draw conclusions from "slightly better". :-} (Looks like most of
string.scm's integrable definitions are guarantors or external-string
ops.)