specialized-io is a collection of unsafe, fast procedures for I/O.


USAGE
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specialized-io is actually very simple.

specialized-io-error: this procedure will be called when anything goes wrong.
 By default, it's boud to Chicken's "error" procedure, but you
 can bind it to something else:
 (set! specialized-io-error my-error-procedure)

(read-TYPE port) will read an object of type TYPE from port.

(write-TYPE value port) will write value to port.

NO verifications on objects or ports are performed!

TYPE can be:

fixnum
flonum
complex
one-char

("one-char" was used so as to avoid procedure names conflicting with
 R5RS; one-char is just a character.)

Example:

(let ((v (read-flonum my-input-port)))
  (write-flonum (fp* 2.5 v) my-output-port))

Note that you can use fp* with a value returned from read-flonum (it's
guaranteed to be a flonum).

CAVEATS
-------

specialized-io is unsafe in order to be fast, and trying to write to
something that is not a port will crash the program.


TESTS
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There is a "tests/" directory.  Load the file "run.scm" there.

BENCHMARKS
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There is a "benchmarks/" directory. Load the file "run.scm" there.