[Haskell-cafe] Where is Data.Atom ?

[Brian Hulley]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> Sunday, July 2, 2006, 10:58:29 PM, you wrote:
>
>>       fromString :: String -> Atom
>>       toString :: Atom -> String
>
>>       instance Eq Atom
>>       instance Ord Atom -- this is where things get difficult!
>
> i think that ByteString is a very strong candidate to Atom. `memicmp`
> is very fast operation, unless you plan to use really large strings
> with the same beginnings

Thanks - I think I'll use ByteString as the implementation of Atom for the 
moment,
Brian.

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