On Mon Nov 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM CET, Diego via Chicken-users wrote: > Hi all, > > I was working on porting chicken-update from CHICKEN 5 to 6, and noticed that > something like the following took quite a bit longer (around ~1s -> ~5s on my > machine): > > (http:call-with-input-request > "https://eggs.call-cc.org/rss-5.xml"; > #f > (cut read-string #f <>)) > > I thought it might be an http-client thing, but I replaced the cut > read-string with void and the performance is similar, so I'm assuming > read-string may be the issue here. > > Could this be due to utf-8 strings? Is there any way to speed this up? It's > not at all performance critical here; I'm just wondering.
If you replaced the read-string with void, and the speed remained the same, the the problem is likely to be in the http retreival, right? The reading as such seems to be instant, when done from the file system, on my machine. So perhaps it's the transmission from network sockets, including any further parsing/transformation that's the cuplrit here? cheers, felix
