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Revision as of 06:59, 17 February 2006 by DonStewart (talk | contribs) (Packed strings are a performance-centric alternative to Strings)
Strings
Sometimes the cost of representing strings as lists of Char can be too much. In this case, you can instead use packed strings. There are a number of options:
* The standard Data.PackedString type * One of the newer packed string libraries, for example FastPackedString * Unboxed arrays of Word8 or Char * Ptrs to foreign malloced Word8 buffers
The packed string libraries have the benefit over arrays of Word8 or Char types, in that the provide the usual list-like operations.