Re: [Haskell-cafe] Adding a builder to the "bytestring" package?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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Isn't Simon Meier working on migrating his code from blaze-builder into binary?

So I heard (although not directly from Simon). I think it would be nice to port the blaze-builder implementation to binary, but to keep binaries current interface (for now).

What's the advantage to moving in into binary as opposed to bytestring?

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I agree with John that it would make more sense to go in bytestring. Assuming that happens, would the builder from text end up being based on it?

ByteString and Text don't share an underlying data structure at the moment (one uses pinned ForeignPtrs and one unpinned ByteArray#s) so they can use the same builder efficiently. Some day perhaps.

I hadn't realized, I had just assumed it was using ByteString underneath. I'll pay more attention next time, thanks for informing me :). Michael