Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: vector-bytestring-0.0.0.0

2011-10-14 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 14 October 2011 14:01, Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote: > Is there any particular reason to prefer storable vectors instead of > unboxed vectors?  The element type is fixed to Word8 anyway. To be able to safely interface with foreign libraries. Note that unboxed vectors are represented as ByteArray#

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: vector-bytestring-0.0.0.0

2011-10-14 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Bas van Dijk wrote: > I'm pleased to announce the beta release of vector-bytestring. This > library provides the type ByteString which is defined as a type > synonym for a storable Vector of Word8s (from the vector package): > > type ByteString = Data.Vector.Storable.Vector Word8 > > It exports t

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: vector-bytestring-0.0.0.0

2011-10-12 Thread Bas van Dijk
All your ByteString are belong to us... Hello, I'm pleased to announce the beta release of vector-bytestring. This library provides the type ByteString which is defined as a type synonym for a storable Vector of Word8s (from the vector package): type ByteString = Data.Vector.Storable.Vector Wo