10 Jul
2013
10 Jul
'13
2:57 a.m.
To make the transition easier I have an experimental library which defines a ByteString as a type synonym of a Storable.Vector of Word8 and provides the same interface as the bytestring package:
That's interesting Bas. What bothers me about ByteStrings is that they need to be "pinned" inside the heap, preventing the GC from collecting them. This is more than an issue, I think, if a program uses them massively and they needs to be allocated persistently (example: a long-life constant). I know is still a marginal case, but knowing that a part of my heap is pinned makes my sleep quality degrade :( I assume that working with vector remove the problem, correct? A.