Hello Einar, Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 6:06:56 PM, you wrote:
My version of the packed string library does have an hGetLine. Don Stewart was merging my version with his fps at some point, Don - any news on that?
EK> Getting a fast FastPackedString will solve the problems with many EK> benchmarks. btw, JHC's version of FPS uses slightly less memory (i don't remember, 8 or 12 bytes per each string) and i think must be faster (because it uses ByteArray# instead of Addr#). so, the best variant is to add hGetLine to John's library
set arr x yv
(arr,x) =: yv looks better ;) EK> and so forth. Usually imperative solutions have something like EK> "a[i] += b[i]", which currently is quite tedious and ugly to EK> translate to MArrays. Now it would become "combineTo a i (+) b i". you are definitely a Hal Daume's client, look at http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/STPP/ -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com