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		didntcheck on July 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SlowDownAndWasteMemory() I can't find the reference right now, but IIRC the Glasgow Haskell Compiler had a function called "unsafeDirectIo" which people were using too flippantly. So they renamed it to "evilUnholyDirectIo"

tome on July 4, 2023 [–]

Maybe you're thinking of `unsafePerformIO` (which still exists) and `accursedUnutterablePerformIO`.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.18.0.0/docs/Syste...

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.10.8.1/docs...

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