[Haskell-cafe] pointer equality

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 23:51, Nikhil A. Patil <patil.nikhil at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there any way of getting the following code to immediately return
> True without performing the element-by-element comparison? Essentially
> this boils down to checking whether pointers are equal before
> comparing the contents.
>

Let's pt it this way:  there's a hidden primitive called
"reallyUnsafePointerEquality".  It's named that for a reason.

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