Proposal: add ByteString support to unix:System.Posix.IO API

[wren ng thornton]

On 3/1/11 6:01 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2011 23:51:05, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>>
>> What's the practical difference between a (lazy) list of strict
>> bytestrings and a lazy bytestring?
>
> Lazy ByteStrings are head-strict. I don't know whether that's relevant
> here, though.

Or rather, element-strict. But I don't think that matters here, since 
writing requires element strictness anyways.

It may be significant if I write new versions to use writev for 
lists/lazys instead of calling write repeatedly, since we'd have to 
force all elements before calling into C. But then writev would require 
forcing the spine anyways (to get the length in chunks) so it wouldn't 
affect asymptotic behavior or memory retention.

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