Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Following the comments over the last few days, I've implemented and tagged FPS 0.3. Changes include:
* Clearer docs. Emphasis on support only for latin-1 * Partition out the few Word8 functions * Merge in all of Simon's QC tests into a combined test/benchmark suite * Stress testing on huge data quantities * Space profiling, improved some functions * Clarify BSD license everything
I think its about ready to become a ByteSequence (or whatever) library: a useful (actually, critical, imo) interim until we have a full Unicode/UTF* layer, and a Storable a => Vector a, set up. At that point, the Word8/Char issues resolve themselves.
As usual, info is all here: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps.html
Looks good to me. I propose we resolve the naming and put it into the base package as a replacement for Data.PackedString. Currently the module is called Data.FastPackedString and the type is FastString. I like either Data.ByteString(ByteString) or Data.ByteSequence(ByteSequence) as a replacement, preferences/objections/alternatives? Cheers, Simon