Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fun with ByteStrings [was: A very edgy language]

Malte Milatz wrote:

Stefan O'Rear:

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[Char] is a linked list of pointers to heap-allocated fullword integers, 20 (40) bytes per character (assuming non-latin1).

Hey, I love ByteStrings! ;-)

If only there were a way to write functions that transparently work on both [x] and ByteString... (Well, I mean, there *is* - if you want to write *lots* of code by hand yourself...) Anyone have any comments on how ByteString is different from, say, UArray Word8?