Note that the following functions are parallelized and will generally be faster on more processors.
val contents: string -> stringcontents path reads the file at path and returns its contents as a
string.
val contentsSeq: string -> char Seq.tcontentsSeq path reads the file at path and returns its contents as a
sequence of bytes represented as chars.
val contentsBinSeq: string -> Word8.word Seq.tcontentsBinSeq path reads the file at path and returns its contents as a
sequence of bytes represented as Word8.words.