I remember this discussion, lazy vectors would also enable an implementation of bytestring and (maybe) text only with unboxed vectors, unifying it all: type ByteString = Vector Word8
2012/7/12 Evan Laforge <qdun...@gmail.com> > he recent discussion of whether storablevector should be deprecated in > favor of vector reminded me: vector supports storable arrays, but it > doesn't support lazy arrays. While storablevector has lazy arrays and > a builder, it doesn't support boxed types (it would be become misnamed > if it did!). > > So it seems the niche of boxed lazy arrays is unfilled. And if vector > grew a lazy variant it could subsume storablevector and we could > consolidate array libraries a little more. It seems a lot of Writer > monad type stuff (logging etc.) could be made more efficient with a > boxed lazy array builder, at the cost of rougher grained laziness. > > Does such a thing already exist? I'd check hackage, but it's down... > > http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://hackage.haskell.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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