26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
7:45 p.m.
+1 Excerpts from Bas van Dijk's message of Wed Oct 26 15:34:32 -0400 2011:
While I was hunting for a space leak in the new hackage-server (still haven't found it) I noticed strict and lazy ByteStrings don't have NFData instances. I propose to add them because it enables users to force ByteStrings in the principled way (using deepseq) so they don't need to use tricks like: B.length b `seq` ...
instance NFData Strict.ByteString
instance NFData Lazy.ByteString where rnf Empty = () rnf (Chunk _ b) = rnf b
Note that the containers dependency of deepseq was recently dropped so depending on that package is not a big issue anymore.
Discussion deadline: 2 weeks from now (9 November)
Bas