constantly.atsome random musingsBivalent streams for sbcl- June 29, 2005 I've just committed support for bivalent streams in sbcl.&160; The entry in NEWS labels it "experimental", largely because it should work (tm) but needs testing by users.&160; A bivalent stream is created by calling open with an :element-type :default argument. Streams are not bivalent by default because bivalent streams are incompatible with fast-read-char, an internal optimization in sbcl's stream machinery that bulk-converts octets to characters and implements a fast path through...http://constantly.at/archives/000115.html |