libera/#sbcl - IRC Chatlog

22:43:16 |3b| nibbles doesn't inline by default, so has a lot of overhead just from calling functions. with inline declarations it should be fast

22:44:03 stassats` it just can't be fast

22:44:51 stassats` unless it starts going even further into sbcl internals and getting broken every other day

22:46:19 |3b| ACTION missed that the original question wanted to read from streams

22:50:03 |3b| not sure those c++ things do that though, and the CL option of displacing to different types definitely wouldn't, so sounds like reading into a UB8 vector should be fine?

22:51:57 stassats` there's nothing that precludes from reading into the right array type directly, unless there's some byte swapping to be done

22:52:31 stassats` but even then, byte swapping could be cheaper on the final vector

22:52:49 stassats` can read(2) swap bytes?

23:13:20 reb stassats`: read(2) does not swap bytes ...