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Question about working with mixed signed integers 8 21 (8/5/2007 1:01:05 AM) comp.lang.lisp I frequently need to work with binary data files. Writing them with Lisp is no problem. Reading them has posed some challenges. I think I've boiled one of them down to a very simple case that I'm hoping one of ... jkc

Question about 'rename-file 9 29 (11/25/2006 1:33:50 AM) comp.lang.lisp I read in the hyperspec that rename-file does a merge-pathnames on the input which if applied to this case (rename-file #P"/tmp/somefile" #p"relative/file.name") would fail because it would be trying to write... jkc

Why isn't FFI nearly as efficient as native code? 7 25 (7/30/2006 7:51:50 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've been working with large complex matrices which led me to calling functions out of BLAS and ATLAS using FFI. I expected the overhead of calling these functions to be pretty minimal but was surprised to find... jkc

How to read a binary floating-point file? 32 36 (7/26/2006 5:29:35 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've spent hours parsing comp.lang.lisp and various UFFI, CFFI documents, the CMUCL manual, trying to figure out how to read a binary floating point file in Lisp off and on for the last week without success. I'... jkc

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How to read a binary floating-point file? 32 36 (7/26/2006 5:29:35 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've spent hours parsing comp.lang.lisp and various UFFI, CFFI documents, the CMUCL manual, trying to figure out how to read a binary floating point file in Lisp off and on for the last week without success. I'... jeffrey5481 (22)

You want Cells doc? 7 42 (7/29/2006 2:22:40 PM) comp.lang.lisp http://pycells.pdxcb.net/docs/ MWUAHAHAHAHAAAAAHHAHAHA... hth, kenny -- Cells: http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/ "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling... kentilton (2964)

Why isn't FFI nearly as efficient as native code? 7 25 (7/30/2006 7:51:50 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've been working with large complex matrices which led me to calling functions out of BLAS and ATLAS using FFI. I expected the overhead of calling these functions to be pretty minimal but was surprised to find... jeffrey5481 (22)

Question about 'rename-file 9 29 (11/25/2006 1:33:50 AM) comp.lang.lisp I read in the hyperspec that rename-file does a merge-pathnames on the input which if applied to this case (rename-file #P"/tmp/somefile" #p"relative/file.name") would fail because it would be trying to write... jeffrey5481 (22)

N00b question on let 87 29 (11/26/2006 5:02:27 PM) comp.lang.lisp Fist, is this the appropriate group for lisp noob questions? If not, please redirect me to the appropriate forum. As background, I'm a 30+ developer with strong C/C++ & Java skills (among others), learning... Miss

printing to stdout from C functions 8 35 (7/11/2007 9:11:56 AM) comp.lang.lisp Hi, I am debugging a program that calls some C functions via CFFI. Printing stuff from C would be useful (via printf), but the output doesn't show up. I am using SBCL, inside Emacs and SLIME. Is there a way ... tkpapp (975)

Any library for visual representation of charts ? 6 46 (7/20/2007 8:01:12 PM) comp.lang.lisp I've stumbled to a need to visualize some graph data. Any library that do things like pies, histograms, box & whiskers .. ? The only thing I found is PLOT-2D which looks nice but I'm little worried about ho... slobodan.blazeski (1459)

Question about working with mixed signed integers 8 21 (8/5/2007 1:01:05 AM) comp.lang.lisp I frequently need to work with binary data files. Writing them with Lisp is no problem. Reading them has posed some challenges. I think I've boiled one of them down to a very simple case that I'm hoping one of ... jeffrey5481 (22)