> All the IO operators seem to be about Chars and claim to be unicode.
> If they are unicode, does that mean they read 2 bytes at a time of the
> input stream?
Unicode support is a figment of the Haskell report's imagination.
Hugs and GHC don't support unicode - nor is there any great rush to do so.
I'm not sure about hbc and nhc.
> 3. CGI startup and HUGS
> Hugs scripts seem to take a very long time to start up.
> Testing with this:
> > main = putStr "content-type: text/html\n\nhello world\n"
> Hugs scripts have a noticeable response delay.
> The equivalent Perl, C, and GHC executables all respond with negligible
> delay. Is there any way to speed up Hugs scripts other than waiting for a
> new version?
Compile them with GHC :-)
If you're really keen (aka masochistic) you could modify Hugs to dump a
snapshot of itself and its memory contents after loading a file - the
way that TeX and emacs do. Details on how to do this for various
architectures can be found in the TeX and emacs source code.
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