Just an outsider's reaction, and for all I know unsafeRead is actually safe, but.... if the point of using Haskell (and I'm still trying to discover what that is ;-) ) is either to be able to rigorously mathematically prove that your program will work perfectly (target usage 1), or to carry out threading easily and automatically (what I'm interested specifically in), ... then why do we have to throw unsafe functions around the place to get any decent speed???
<br><br>Ok, I&#39;ll go back to my hole; just a reaction.&nbsp; I know everything has to start somewhere, and build up, just be aware that having to use unsafe stuff to get decent speed is not good PR ;-)<br><br>