[Haskell-cafe] Help needed for converting IOArray to ByteString

[Gábor Lehel]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:39 AM, C K Kashyap <ckkashyap at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Just use Data.Word.Word8 instead of the second Int in your type sig
>> for IOArray
>> 2) Use getElems to get a [Word8]
>> 3) Data.ByteString.pack converts a [Word8] into a ByteString
>>
>> Michael
>
> I am currently using a list of tuples - [(Int,Int,Int)] to represent an
> image buffer. You can see it in the getImageByteString
> function at https://github.com/ckkashyap/Chitra/blob/master/RFB/Encoding.hs
> Looks like this is pretty slow, and hence I am exploring Arrays.
> I wonder if working with [Word8] will also suffer from performance hit?
> Regards,
> Kashyap

Using Data.ByteString.Internal.create along with readArray to fill in
the contents seems like it would be a fast option (though I haven't
tried it).

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