#5218: Add unpackCStringLen# to create Strings from string literals -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: tibbe | Owner: thoughtpolice Type: feature request | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: 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 Rev(s): Phab:D2443 #11312 | Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by alexbiehl): Not only string literals could benefit from ByteArray# literals: Integer/BigNats could too! Currently big integer literals are desugared into a list of `Int` chunks. With ByteArray# literals we could represent them directly as a constant! Whats the status on this ticket? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5218#comment:77 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler