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