#5218: Add unpackCStringLen# to create Strings from string literals -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: tibbe | Owner: | thoughtpolice Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.12.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.0.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Type of failure: Runtime | Unknown/Multiple performance bug | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #5877 #10064 | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by nomeata): Well, any way to include a literal bytestring would help in avoiding the runtime cost. If the setup is only for `Text.ByteString`, there might be some dark coercing magic required to make that a vector while still pointing at the same `Addr#`, but it should work. I currently have a template-haskell based solution in [my repository](https://github.com/entropia/tip-toi- reveng/blob/master/src/BakedVector.hs) which allows me to write [this code](https://github.com/entropia/tip-toi- reveng/blob/master/src/KnownCodes.hs), which works fine for me. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5218#comment:33 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler