23 Nov
2004
23 Nov
'04
5:42 a.m.
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:03, you wrote:
But - why would you want to use a pure C function. The chances of any useful C library function being pure are slim - and the performance of GHC in some of the benchmarks shows that there is hardly any speed advantage
The typical case (for me) is a foreign library exporting mostly non-pure routines, but with one or two pure functions among them. But as has been stated already, unsafePerformIO is not needed in this case. BTW, if you reply to the list anyway, don't reply to me in person. Otherwise I get everything duplicated (and it goes onto the wrong folder ;-). Ben -- Top level things with identity are evil. -- Lennart Augustsson