lemming: > > On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, John Van Enk wrote: > > >Eric, > > > >I was hoping to use a packed format like ByteString eventually. Right > >now, I > >want to get everything working nicely. As it stands, I end up marshaling a > >lot of information into/out of arrays which I'd much rather keep as a > >block > >of memory. > > > >I'm guessing that some sort of unboxed array would be close to what I > >want. > >If you have suggestions, I'm more than open to them. (This is my first > >attempt at writing a library.) > > In recent versions of StorableVector (not at hackage yet, only in darcs > repository) there is a chunky lazy variant. However there are also the > uvector and vector packages, and no-one seems to know, on which one we > should focus.
There's no immediate plans to merge them, but uvector will likely gain a lazy variant soonish. As 'vector's announcement said, uvector is the stable, more conservative variant that works with 6.8.2, and has a richer API. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
