[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: vector 0.1 (efficient arrays with lots of fusion)

Roman Leshchinskiy rl at cse.unsw.edu.au
Mon Jul 14 00:30:31 EDT 2008


Levi Stephen wrote:
>  On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Roman Leshchinskiy
> <rl at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the vector library will eventually provide fast, Int-indexed arrays with a
>> powerful fusion framework. It's very immature at the moment (I haven't
>>  tested most of the code) and implements just a few combinators but I
>> thought releasing early wouldn't hurt. Use at your own risk and expect
>> things to break horribly!
>>
> 
> Sounds interesting. How does this compare to the uvector library?

IIUC, uvector is based on an older version of the DPH libraries and only 
provides unboxed arrays. On the other hand, it's much more stable and 
has more functionality. I expect that the two libraries will be merged 
eventually.

Roman



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