[project @ 2003-01-28 11:09:41 by simonmar]

[project @ 2003-01-28 11:09:41 by simonmar]
Provide hand-optimised versions of all the functions herein, protected
by #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__.

In a quick test, withCString is at least 5 times faster than before.

This isn't really the right way to do it: we should get deforestation
working between the various component functions and let GHC do its
stuff, but I couldn't quite get that to work.