Help with a Shootout program

[Simon Marlow]

On 24 February 2005 14:47, Carsten Schultz wrote:

> The real performance problem propbably is not O(n) vs. O(n*log n) but
> slow String operations in general.  After all, String is a lazy list
> of Char.  Have a look at the thread mentioned above, possibly Simon's
> version has become fast again, otherwise it would be an opportuniy to
> reconsider the problems mentioned there.

PackedStrings are still slow in 6.x.  I know there are various other
PackedString implementations out there, we just need to incorporate one.

Cheers,
	Simon