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Re: structs, records, SMOBs etc.


> [1] I'm writing a lot of scm->C and C->scm translations into everything,
>     they don't seem to make much difference to the speed (though they
>     can't be helping) but they do obfuscate the code and forgetting to
>     include a translation (especially C->scm) is usually instant segmentation
>     violation signals.

Why aren't you getting typecheck errors?  The scheme values should be
of type "SCM", and the C values should be pointers or something.

That would be quicker than waiting for segfaults.