I'm just getting around to converting GHC's ForeignPtr to match the spec once more. This is all fine, except that implementing finalizer ordering slows down ForeignPtrs quite a bit, in particular mallocForeignPtr takes a 20% hit just allocating the IORef needed to store the list of finalizers. Ideas for a better implementation are welcome. Anyway, this message is really about what names we should use for the old Haskell-finalizer versions of newForeignPtr and addForeignPtrFinalizer (and as such it doesn't have any bearing on the FFI spec 1.0). I'm assuming that we want to keep these functions in some form in GHC - where to put them is one issue; Foreign.ForeignPtr is a possibility (but not ForeignPtr), or GHC.ForeignPtr. I looked back through old mail and couldn't find any suggestions for names. Nothing springs immediately to mind - newHaskellFinalizerForeignObj is clearly horrible. Ideas? Cheers, Simon