Re: [Haskell-cafe] pointer equality

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 23:51, Nikhil A. Patil wrote:

Is there any way of getting the following code to immediately return True without performing the element-by-element comparison? Essentially this boils down to checking whether pointers are equal before comparing the contents.

Let's pt it this way: there's a hidden primitive called "reallyUnsafePointerEquality". It's named that for a reason. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms