Hi
See this thread:
http://www.nabble.com/%7B---INLINE-me_harder---%7D-tf3599366.html
I'll try and see if I can do this with RULES.
| foreign import ccall safe "stdio.h getchar" getchar2 :: CInt | | Can I stop this being CAF'd in any way?
What is the problem you are trying to solve?
I have written an optimiser for Haskell in Yhc Core, and I'm now trying to spit out optimised Haskell so GHC can create a binary to get top performance. The main loop is given in: http://hpaste.org/1862 The FFI call must create a IO monad box to put the thing in, then the main loop strips the IO box away. If I could avoid the overhead of creating the box in the meantime, that would be preferable. With that loop I'm about 10% slower than C on the "wc -c" problem using "getchar" as the character supply, using String = [Char] - and about 25% faster than GHC. Thanks Neil