]> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I still can reuse a lot of this. Esspecially the syntax extension > seems like a good idea. Maybe reduced to bytes instead of bits > though. I don't intend to use such fine grained structures to need bit > access. Take a close look at bitstring. In all the cases where it can *statically* determine that accesses are on byte or larger boundaries, it does *not* do any bitfiddling but uses the most efficient, direct C calls possible. We really did spend a lot of time optimizing the bitmatch case. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat