[Haskell-cafe] ANN: bytestring-lexing 0.4.3

[wren ng thornton]

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-- bytestring-lexing 0.4.3
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The bytestring-lexing package offers efficient reading and packing of
common types like Double and Integral types.


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-- Changes (since 0.4.2)
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* Fixed a segfault bug in packDecimal.

Due to the optimizations introduced in 0.4.2, packDecimal could segfault
when passed a value larger than (maxBound::Word64). This patch corrects
the oversight, and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

Unfortunately, the safety test results in a 1.19x slowdown over version
0.4.2; reducing the 1.28x speedup for 0.4.0-->0.4.2 to a mere 1.08x for
0.4.0-->0.4.3. Future versions will probably introduce a type class to
remove the safety check for types where it must vacuously succeed.


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-- Links
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Homepage:
    http://code.haskell.org/~wren/

Hackage:
    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-lexing

Darcs:
    http://community.haskell.org/~wren/bytestring-lexing

Haddock (Darcs version):
    http://community.haskell.org/~wren/bytestring-lexing/dist/doc/html/bytestring-lexing

-- 
Live well,
~wren