[Haskell-cafe] Yi and Data.ByteString

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello gwern0,

Monday, January 21, 2008, 10:18:15 PM, you wrote:

> really built-in - they're a separate library. You could perhaps
> suggest that [Char] could be often optimized into ByteString
> operations but then ByteStrings need to either lose their library
> status and be incorporated into GHC

it is no problem, although it should be done in a bit different way.
some concrete version of ByteString library should be built-in into
GHC (base library, probably) and used *only* for this purpose while
ByteString library by itself should remain separate and continue to
improve

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com