More PackedStrings please

2000-06-05 Thread George Russell
It would probably speed up my code somewhat if the GHC libraries provided more support for PackedStrings. For example, some code I have reads in stuff from a Posix fd (using Posix.fdRead) and then feeds it to the GHC regular expression interface (using RegexString.matchRegex). It is frustrating

RE: More PackedStrings please

2000-06-05 Thread Simon Marlow
It would probably speed up my code somewhat if the GHC libraries provided more support for PackedStrings. For example, some code I have reads in stuff from a Posix fd (using Posix.fdRead) and then feeds it to the GHC regular expression interface (using RegexString.matchRegex). It is