[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Data.CompactString 0.1 - my attempt at a Unicode ByteString

[Twan van Laarhoven]

Hello all,

I would like to announce my attempt at making a Unicode version of 
Data.ByteString. The library is named Data.CompactString to avoid 
conflict with other (Fast)PackedString libraries.

The library uses a variable length encoding (1 to 3 bytes) of Chars into 
Word8s, which are then stored in a ByteString. The structure is very 
much based on Data.ByteString, most of the implementation is copied from 
there. Hopefully this means that fusion rules could be copied as well.

This is kind of a pre-release, many functions are still missing, and I 
have not benchmarked yet. I am releasing this in the hopes of getting 
some feedback on the general idea.

Homepage:  http://twan.home.fmf.nl/compact-string/
Haddock:   http://twan.home.fmf.nl/compact-string/doc/html/
Source:    darcs get http://twan.home.fmf.nl/repos/compact-string

Twan van Laarhoven