[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

zednenem:
> On 7/15/07, Derek Elkins <derek.a.elkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> >There is no version of bytestrings without stream fusion and there never
> >was.  Bytestrings have no compiler support, it is just a library.
> 
> I'm not sure that's correct. Stream fusion is a particular fusion
> technique that wasn't introduced until fairly recently.
> 
> >From what I can tell, none of the versions available from
> <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps.html> include it. You have to go
> to <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CSL06.html> and get the
> code from the fps-unstable branch.

That's right. Both stream fusion for lists and bytestrings are currently
only in darcs,

    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/fps-unstable/
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/code/streams/list/

Bytestrings will be streamed by the next release.

-- Don