On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:27:14 +0200, Salvatore Insalaco wrote: > For the same reason, I think that we should seriously think to switch > to ByteStrings. Isn't Darcs PackedString just a "prerelease" version > of ByteStrings? They have a pretty similar API. And now (in 6.7) > ByteStrings have a > super-fast-hardware-accelerated-sse-mmx-altivec-parallel algorithms > for stream fusion (more or less ;) ).
There's actually an issue open for this http://bugs.darcs.net/issue341 A good way to implement this switch might be to ask the fps'ers themselves. The library has changed a bit since darcs (functions renamed, functionality stripped out) and they know best what has happened. Not sure what the best way to reach them is, though. IRC? Haskell-cafe? Personal mail to Don? Also, to keep things minimally invasive, we should probably do this by keeping our FastPackedString module as a wrapper around Data.ByteString. This way we increase the chances that changes to unstable can migrate to stable without Tommy having to grab our Data.ByteString stuff with it. When stable has pulled in our FastPackedString wrapper, we can then move on to modernising our imports... -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français.
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