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From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strings
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Romain Beauxis <toots@rastageeks.org> writes:

> Le Saturday 04 April 2009 11:14:34 David Rajchenbach-Teller, vous avez écrit :
>> Note that Batteries provides
>> * regular OCaml strings
>> * strings with capabilities (i.e. strings which, depending on their
>> type, can be read-only/write-only/read-write) -- sometimes faster than
>> regular strings, never slower
>> * immutable Unicode ropes.
>
> Impressive !
>
> I am taking this opportunity to ask wether there exists a String-compatible 
> API that would in fact manipulate lazy strings, i.e. strings which content is 
> read on-the-fly ?
>
>
> Romain

mmap?

MfG
        Goswin