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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 17:19:14 +0100 (MET) From: Christian Lynbech <chl@tbit.dk> Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.023. Sender: owner-guile@cygnus.com Precedence: bulk X-UIDL: 27ddba723c88fc72400ede93dd7b8a81 Still working on convincing my group members, I also need to know about bitfiddling in guile. The project I am to work on, will communicate over the network according to standards, and thus will need to fiddle bits in order to convert the requests from their standard representations to internal (scheme) structures. I have noticed that guile supports bitvectors. Can I assume that they are reasonably effecient to use? (Extending in C is always an opportunity, but having good bitvectors would also be nice). I used Guile's (then called SCM) bit-vectors in implementing a very fast query system for free text databases (> 3 million records).