Re: Purpose of rawsock module

Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
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> * Daniel Jour <[email protected]> [2016-05-31 09:26:46 +0200]:
>
> I wonder though, why is this not part of CLISP (i.e. not a module)?
> The socket interface of CLISP could be perfectly well build on top of "rawsock",
> or - if speed is an issue - on the underlying C functions.
> Is the "overhead" of providing access to the functions (i.e. the LISP<->C
> conversions, the additional subrs) really that crucial?

high-level socket interface was written long before the rawsock module.
there was a talk about turning it into a module, but it was deemed too important.

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