new new new IO

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:24:08 -0700 (PDT) 

One more rewrite of TextIO.  Here are the new numbers.

		M/s
input1		25.8
scanStream	 8.0

For scanStream, MLton doesn't flatten out the state, and so does a lot of
allocation.  Another round of flattening would catch it, but what we need is a
better flattener.