On 20.09 15:05, Dylan Thurston wrote: > You know about the PackedString functions, right? > > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.0/html/base/Data.PackedString.html
Yes, but they are quite broken. I am using FastPackedString from darcs for many purposes, which is like PackedString in many ways. PackedStrings use full unicode codepoints (4*size in bytes), but having a char > 256 in them does not work if one wants to do IO. This means essentially that the wasted space cannot be used in any meaningfull way. Also concatenating PackedStrings is not very nice: concatPS pss = packString (concat (map unpackPS pss)) And most important they need a conversion (unpackPS), before using them with external libraries which expect Strings. - Einar Karttunen _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
