Re: [Chicken-users] CHICKEN 4.9.0rc1 is available

2014-05-05 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 03:54:55PM +0200, Michele La Monaca wrote: OS : Solaris 10 ARCH : sparc C_COMP : Sun C 5.11 Installation works? : yes Installation of eggs works? : yes Tests work? : almost - ===private repository test ... Error:

[Chicken-users] SRFI 4 vectors size limitation.

2014-05-05 Thread Jubjub
I've noticed that srfi-4 homogeneous numeric vectors are limited to 0xF bytes, regardless of their type. This amounts to 16MB of data, which I've found insufficient since they're the most widely used and convenient way to manipulate raw bytes, and the most common way to move data through the

Re: [Chicken-users] SRFI 4 vectors size limitation.

2014-05-05 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 07:33:28PM +0200, Jubjub wrote: I've noticed that srfi-4 homogeneous numeric vectors are limited to 0xF bytes, regardless of their type. This amounts to 16MB of data, which I've found insufficient since they're the most widely used and convenient way to manipulate