[Haskell-cafe] Re: The Proliferation of List-Like Types

[Chad Scherrer]

Henning Thielemann <lemming <at> henning-thielemann.de> writes:
> > 4) We are missing one final useful type: a Word32-based ByteString.
> >   When working in the Unicode character set, a 32-bit character
> >   can indeed be useful, and I could see situations in which the
> >   performance benefit of a ByteString-like implementation could
> >   be useful combared to [Char].
> 
> StorableVector should fill this gap.
>    http://code.haskell.org/~sjanssen/storablevector/
> 

Yes, it could, but 
(1) it's way behind ByteString in terms of optimizations (== "fusion")
(2) there's (as far as I know) not a StorableVector.Lazy, which is very much
    needed

To catch up on both fronts, we're looking at a lot of duplicate code.

Chad