On 26 October 2011 21:34, Bas van Dijk
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
Because of the upcoming ghc-7.4 release I went ahead and created a ticket. Although the discussion period is not officially over there was overwhelming support and not a single objection was made. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5601 I just realized that bytestring is not maintained by libraries@haskell.org but by Don and Duncan. Are you guys ok with this change? Cheers, Bas