On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:41:15AM +0100, Nicolas Pouillard wrote: > Excerpts from trentbuck's message of Fri Mar 27 01:03:05 +0100 2009: > > Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > * Text.PrettyPrint doesn't give you a way to print any sort of packed > > > string type without unpacking it. This is waiting on there being a > > > suitable unicode packed string type for it to use. > > > > How serious an issue is this? I guess most of the strings that this > > module prints are quite short, so wouldn't the unpacking cost be > > negligible? > > Hum are you sure? The hexadecimal representation of binary patches can be > very long.
OK, so currently Printer.lhs is responsible for both writing stuff to the terminal (hence the talk about colour support, for example), but *also* for writing patch files to disk (hence Eric's caution)? _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
