[MIT-Scheme-devel] Efficient reading from a network socket

[Matt Birkholz]

> From: <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 11:03:23 +0200
> 
> Hello fellow Schemers!
> 
> Another question, what is an efficient way to read from a network (or
> unix domain) socket? After reading the manual, I'd guess READ-SUBSTRING!
> with an aptly allocated string and then using VECTOR-8B-REF etc. to
> access the actual values. Is this correct?

Yes, that seems to be the fashion, consistent with recently written
stuff like runtime/blowfish.scm, though input-port/read-substring! is
also popular, avoiding an optional argument initialization.  (I take
my cues from the canon.)

> Is there any further support for processing network packages that
> might be split up and fragmented?

Out-of-order UDP network packets?  Never heard of them. :-}