Re: Pretty printing IP addresses

Subject: Re: Pretty printing IP addresses
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 24 Sep 2002 00:15:38 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3241815338491081@naggum.no>

* Matthew X. Economou
| Aren't (SIMPLE-BIT-VECTOR 32) and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) the same thing?

  Not even remotely comparable.

| In any case, I was attempting to build an interface that was "zero copy",
| where the in-memory and on-the-wire (or on-the-filesystem) formats were
| identical.

  You cannot write any integers into bit-vectors other than 0 and 1.  You
  address each individual bit.  It is slow and expensive to turn an integer
  into a bit-vector or vice versa unless you get at the implementation details.

  Something tells me you have no running code at this point.

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