Hello Donald, Thursday, August 25, 2005, 8:10:44 AM, you wrote:
DBS> I've cabalised the FastPackedString module from darcs, used in h4sh, as the DBS> `fps' library. if you plan to support/improve this library, can you please: 1) add psniceq/pscmp to export list (with better names, smtg like eqPS/cmpPS) 2) add case-ignoring-versions of these operations (i want to use packed strings to represent filenames, and under Windows filenames are case-insensetive, while under Unix is not) about details of realization - is not it better to use just memcmp to implement pscmp and also "psniceq a b = (pscmp a b) == EQ" ? may be it is better to open representation for library users? i think that number of operations which can be added for packed strings by external libraries is unlimited - GhcBinary support, alternative I/O schemes imho, such library must be included in GHC itself - sooner or later. using 8-times memory representation for ordinary strings is just disastrous for some projects -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
