bulatz: > 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:
I intend to further clean up this code, and also some profiling and quichchecking -- at the moment it is fresh from the darcs-unstable branch. However, before doing more than just clean ups, I'd be inclined to see SimonM's code (rumour has it that he has some fast IO module in the works). > 1) add psniceq/pscmp to export list (with better names, smtg like > eqPS/cmpPS) Ok. > 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) Hmm. Couldn't you just mapPS toLower ? We don't have case-ignoring versions of any List functions, so it seems strange to have them here. > about details of realization - is not it better to use just memcmp to > implement pscmp and also "psniceq a b = (pscmp a b) == EQ" ? I would think so, yes. I'll have to work out why it has been written the way has been. > 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 Agreed. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
