[Haskell-cafe] Optimising UTF8-CString -> String marshaling, plus comments on withCStringLen/peekCStringLen

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Duncan,

Monday, June 4, 2007, 2:25:10 PM, you wrote:

>>  - the chr function tests that its Int argument is less than 1114111,
>>    before constructing the Char. It'd be nice to avoid this test.

use unsafeChr or, for portability, smth like this:

#ifdef GHC
import GHC.Exts (unsafeChr)
#else
unsafeChr = chr
#endif


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