Re: Verrazano/CFFI R.I.P.?

Ivan Shvedunov wrote:
Just interesting, how do you deal with the following issues?
- fixnums usually cannot represent full 32-bit numbers, so bignums will be used instead in many cases (very ineffective);

Is this a translation issue or just "C will be faster in any application where 32-bit numbers tend to reach the limit of fixnums"?

 - pointer arithmetic, mixing pointer<->arrays, pointer<->uint conversion;
 - malloc() / free() memory management;
 ... probably many other things like these ...

My subject was indeed in jest. I just want to get the bulk of 23kloc of C reasonably "re-typed" as CL, so foo(x,y,z); becomes (foo x y z) without pushing my carpal tunnel syndrome over the edge.

I am still open to the possibility of failing completely in the face of C syntax silliness. Even found a confession in K&R that their treating typedef as a storage class specifier in the grammar is a joke. <sigh> Am I the only one who takes programming seriously?!

kt
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