unboxed types

[Isaac Dupree]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Isaac,
> 
>> Or will I have to
>> #define UTopen (#
>> #defined UTclose #)
>>
>> and (UTopen x, y UTclose)
> 
> Yuk! There is a ticket on adding a prefix form of (#,#), which is
> currently lacking. Perhaps adding that first, then moving to the
> unboxed thingy would be best.

that sounds like a good idea anyway, although it would not help my 
present issue unless I'm willing to disable the unboxed FastTypes with 
GHC < 6.9 , which would likely be disastrous for the speed of a stage1 
compiled with -O0...

Isaac