[Haskell-cafe] Re: The Proliferation of List-Like Types

Henning Thielemann writes:

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4) We are missing one final useful type: a Word32-based ByteString. When working in the Unicode character set, a 32-bit character can indeed be useful, and I could see situations in which the performance benefit of a ByteString-like implementation could be useful combared to [Char].

StorableVector should fill this gap. http://code.haskell.org/~sjanssen/storablevector/

Yes, it could, but (1) it's way behind ByteString in terms of optimizations (== "fusion") (2) there's (as far as I know) not a StorableVector.Lazy, which is very much needed To catch up on both fronts, we're looking at a lot of duplicate code. Chad