GHC.Prim.ByteArray# - confusing documentation

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 06:09:28 EST 2009


Hello Simon,

Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 1:44:54 PM, you wrote:

>> Consequently I expected sizeOfByteArray# to return the same number
>> that I passed in to newByteArray#. But it doesn't - It returned
>> however much it decided to allocate, which on my platform is always a
>> multiple of four bytes.
>>
>> This is something which could be clarified in the documentation.

> Thanks, I'll fix the docs.

btw, is it possible to fix the behavior? it will reduce overhead for
storing small strings 


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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