Proposal: Add {to, from}Strict conversion functions between strict and lazy ByteStrings

[Gábor Lehel]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 October 2011 12:05, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:
>> I propose to add optimized {to,from}Strict conversion functions between
>> strict and lazy ByteStrings to the Data.ByteString.Lazy API.
>
> +1
>
> Maybe this is bikeshedding and I'm not sure I like it but we could
> also rename these functions to:
>
> toStrict -> fromLazy
> fromStrict -> toLazy
>
> Because we nowhere mention the word 'strict' in the bytestring API but
> we do mention to word 'lazy'.

In that case, I think they should be in the non-Lazy module?
ByteString.Lazy.fromLazy/toLazy sound a bit odd... (at a first
impression, you'd think they were identity functions).

>
> Any idea why "toStrict/simple #1" is faster than "toStrict/optimized #1"?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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