On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 30/12/09 11:09, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
>>
>> Hello Simon,
>>
>> Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 1:44:54 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> btw, is it possible to fix the behavior? it will reduce overhead for
>> storing small strings
>
> It would be possibl
On 30/12/09 11:09, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Simon,
Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 1:44:54 PM, you wrote:
Consequently I expected sizeOfByteArray# to return the same number
that I passed in to newByteArray#. But it doesn't - It returned
however much it decided to allocate, which on my platfo
Hello Simon,
Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 1:44:54 PM, you wrote:
>> Consequently I expected sizeOfByteArray# to return the same number
>> that I passed in to newByteArray#. But it doesn't - It returned
>> however much it decided to allocate, which on my platform is always a
>> multiple of four b
On 24/12/09 23:18, Antoine Latter wrote:
Folks,
I found some of the documentation in GHC.Prim confusing - so I thought
I'd share. The documentation for the ByteArray# type[1] explains
that's it's a raw region in memory that also remembers it's size.
Consequently I expected sizeOfByteArray# to r
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Duncan Coutts
wrote:
>
> It's been on my TODO list for some time to design a portable low level
> ByteArray module that could be implemented by hugs, nhc, ghc, etc. The
> aim would be to be similar to ForeignPtr + Storable but using native
> heap allocated memory
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 18:18 -0500, Antoine Latter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I found some of the documentation in GHC.Prim confusing - so I thought
> I'd share. The documentation for the ByteArray# type[1] explains
> that's it's a raw region in memory that also remembers it's size.
>
> Consequently I ex
Folks,
I found some of the documentation in GHC.Prim confusing - so I thought
I'd share. The documentation for the ByteArray# type[1] explains
that's it's a raw region in memory that also remembers it's size.
Consequently I expected sizeOfByteArray# to return the same number
that I passed in to n
