Hi Ketil,

isn't the new binary-0.7 lazy again or allows laziness? If you could
update to 0.7 with laziness that would be of great use. Maybe Soenke's
patch already allows laziness?

Gruss,
Christian

* Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> [20.03.2013 14:18]:
> 
> (CC: the biohaskell mailing list, in case somebody else is interested)
> 
> Sönke Hahn <s...@zerobuzz.net> writes:
> 
> >> Of course...we're trying to deprecate [the old biolib] in favor of a
> >> set of smaller packages. :-)
> 
> > That's interesting. Are they on hackage already?
> 
> They should be, but I'm not sure how current or updated those versions
> are.  I tend to scratch my own itches first, please report any
> inconsistencies!
> 
> See also:
>   http://biohaskell.org/Libraries
> 
> If there's specific functionality not yet covered, feel free to prod me,
> or just factor it out from the old biolib.
> 
> > http://open-projects.net/~shahn/darcs/biolib/
> 
> Great - pulling it now.
> 
> > I just tested compilation with ghc-7.4.2.
> >
> > One of the patches changes the cabal constraints for binary. ghc-7.6.2
> > ships with binary-0.5.1.1 so it would be good to allow at least 0.5.*.
> > My patch also allows 0.6.* and 0.7.*, which we already have on hackage.
> > I tested compilation with binary-0.6.4.0 and binary-0.7.0.1 on
> > ghc-7.6.2. So I guess allowing these newer binary versions is ok.
> 
> About that: there is a small problem: strictness of binary changed in
> 0.5. This means that for SFF files (454 sequences), the old code pulls
> in the whole file (which can be gigabytes) in one go.  If you use
> biosff, the code there has been rewritten to work lazily with newer
> versions of binary, but it is unfortunately quite a bit slower.
> 
> -k
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