Use bigarrays. There is one striking advantage: you need not to make a
copy when calling blocking I/O functions. With strings/bytes you need
to, because another thread could otherwise move the buffer while you are
reading/writing.

Gerd

Am Sonntag, den 28.02.2016, 19:15 +0000 schrieb Malcolm Matalka:
> I'm writing bindings for a library that is just doing I/O and wondering
> what the suggested best practice is around using string or bigarray.  It
> seems like using Bigarray is probably the most versatile interface.
> People can decide to do the copying themselves or just use Bigarray
> everywhere.
> 
> Are there any other things to consider?  Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> /Malcolm
> 

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