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From: Dave@Yost.COM (Dave Yost)
Subject: read-byte & write-byte considered inefficient
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Sender: yost@netcom.com (Dave Yost)
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Organization: Dave Yost's house
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 18:24:54 GMT
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CLtL2 offers read-byte as the only binary read
primitive.  If you want to read a vector of bytes,
you have to make repeated calls to read-byte.

This is backwards, and very, very inefficient.  There
should also be a read-vector primitive.  If anything
read-byte could call read-vector, not the other way
around.

ditto for write-byte.

-- 
  Dave Yost
      @    .COM
