bstring.erl in the next release?

[Jérôme Marant]

Sean Hinde <Sean.Hinde@REDACTED> writes:


> I put together this driver sometime ago (finished off today) which does the
> str and chr functions quite efficiently. Warning: I am not a C programmer by
> trade. Please therefore treat with extreme caution. Please let me know if
> you find any gremlins..
> 
> I'd also appreciate any comments anyone may have on how this looks or how it
> could be improved. It could certainly do with a reverse function and perhaps
> rstr, rchr if anyone felt the urge.

  Thanks. I'll give feedback.

> 
> Of course if Ericsson made them into bifs that would be even better :)

  Better: implementing strings as binaries rather than lists.
  Everyone knows that managing strings with lists is the major cause of
  poor performances of some Erlang programs: one must not underestimate
  the number of programs processing strings.

  Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@REDACTED>
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