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diff --git a/dev-ml/bigstringaf/metadata.xml b/dev-ml/bigstringaf/metadata.xml index 66a4dd251..6449daf15 100644 --- a/dev-ml/bigstringaf/metadata.xml +++ b/dev-ml/bigstringaf/metadata.xml @@ -6,7 +6,21 @@ <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email> <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name> </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en">Bigstring intrinsics and fast blits based on memcpy/memmove + +The OCaml compiler has a bunch of intrinsics for Bigstrings, but they're not +widely-known, sometimes misused, and so programs that use Bigstrings are slower +than they have to be. And even if a library got that part right and exposed the +intrinsics properly, the compiler doesn't have any fast blits between +Bigstrings and other string-like types. + +So here they are. Go crazy.</longdescription> <upstream> + <bugs-to>https://github.com/inhabitedtype/bigstringaf/issues</bugs-to> <remote-id type="github">inhabitedtype/bigstringaf</remote-id> + <maintainer> + <name>Spiros Eliopoulos</name> + <email>spiros@inhabitedtype.com</email> + </maintainer> </upstream> </pkgmetadata> |