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

[Antoine Latter]

On Feb 20, 2008 12:48 PM, Chad Scherrer <chad.scherrer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

For anyone looking into it - the StorableVector fusion would have to
be quite different from the current ByteString fusion framework.
Maybe it would be enough to lay down a Stream fusion framework for
StorableVectors.

-Antoine