Is there a non-blocking version of hGetArray?

[Simon Marlow]

On 01 October 2004 08:45, Peter Simons wrote:

> I am a happy user of hGetBufNonBlocking, but I have come to
> realize that mutable arrays are nicer to work with than
> pointers, so I have considered using hGetArray instead. I
> do, however, depend on the fact that the function returns as
> soon as it has read data -- even if less than requested --,
> like hGetBufNonBlocking does.
> 
> Is there currently a way to achieve this?

Not currently, but I could probably implement the equivalent
(hGetArrayNonBlocking).

> Am I right assuming that hGetBuf and hGetArray do not differ
> much performance-wise?

Hopefully not.

> One of the reasons I am curious about using mutable arrays
> is because of Data.Array.Base.unsafeRead, which seems to be
> a *lot* faster than accessing the memory through a pointer.
> Is there anything comparable for pointer access?

I'm surprised if pointer access to memory is slower than unsafeRead.
Could you post some code that we can peer at?

Cheers,
	Simon