Re: Proposal: Add {to, from}Strict conversion functions between strict and lazy ByteStrings

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Bas van Dijk wrote:

On 29 October 2011 12:05, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

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I propose to add optimized {to,from}Strict conversion functions between strict and lazy ByteStrings to the Data.ByteString.Lazy API.

+1

Maybe this is bikeshedding and I'm not sure I like it but we could also rename these functions to:

toStrict -> fromLazy fromStrict -> toLazy

Because we nowhere mention the word 'strict' in the bytestring API but we do mention to word 'lazy'.

In that case, I think they should be in the non-Lazy module? ByteString.Lazy.fromLazy/toLazy sound a bit odd... (at a first impression, you'd think they were identity functions).

Any idea why "toStrict/simple #1" is faster than "toStrict/optimized #1"?

Regards,

Bas

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