[Caml-list] Long constant strings?

[Caml-list] Long constant strings?

[Brian Hurt]

I want to create a long, constant string- by long I mean 64K characters 
(it's basically an 8-bit lookup table).  Needless to say, I don't a 64K 
long line (256K actually, as every character is of the \xxx, where x is 
digits).  So currently I'm building the string up as the concatentation of 
4K 16-character strings (each 16-character string fits nicely on a line).  
But looking at the assembly code output of this, I notice that it's 
concatenating the strings at run time.

Am I missing some nice way of doing this?  If not, is there any chance 
that a future rev of the compiler will recognize this idiom and 
concatenate the strings at compile time?

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Brian

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Re: [Caml-list] Long constant strings?

[David Brown]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:35:42PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
> Am I missing some nice way of doing this?  If not, is there any chance 
> that a future rev of the compiler will recognize this idiom and 
> concatenate the strings at compile time?

Why not:

 let text = "\
   \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
   \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
   ...
   "

Dave

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Re: [Caml-list] Long constant strings?

[Brian Hurt]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, David Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:35:42PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > Am I missing some nice way of doing this?  If not, is there any chance 
> > that a future rev of the compiler will recognize this idiom and 
> > concatenate the strings at compile time?
> 
> Why not:
> 
>  let text = "\
>    \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
>    \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
>    ...
>    "
> 
> Dave
> 

Thank you!  That's *exactly* what I want.

My stupid.

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