[Haskell-cafe] Lazy lists simulated by unboxed mutable arrays

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Andrew,

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 10:37:47 PM, you wrote:
>> looks like lazy.bytestring generalized to any a
> That sounds like a darn useful thing to have...

well, support on only Word8 as base type isn't some fundamental limit,
just creators of bytestring package was not very interested in support
of other base types 

> [OTOH, currently unboxed arrays are available only for a select few 
> types, so good luck implementing this in a clean way!]

a few years ago, storable array was slower than special primitives
created for UArray implementation. now they should have equal
performance, so it's possible to make UArray implementation that will
work with any Storable type. Simon, can you please confirm or refute this?


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