Bytestring Alternatives

bytestring reviews and mentions

• RunWithScissors() (2009)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023

  The documentation is itself fairly funny, for those who don’t care to click ahead:

  > This "function" has a superficial similarity to ‘unsafePerformIO’ but it is in fact a malevolent agent of chaos. It unpicks the seams of reality (and the IO monad) so that the normal rules no longer apply. It lulls you into thinking it is reasonable, but when you are not looking it stabs you in the back and aliases all of your mutable buffers. The carcass of many a seasoned Haskell programmer lie strewn at its feet.

  > Witness the trail of destruction:

      https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/commit/71c4b438c675aa360c79d79acc9a491e7bbc26e7

• Monthly Hask Anything (July 2022)
  6 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Jul 2022

  If you bring in efficient strings from bytestring, densely packed arrays from vector, and an in-place sort from vector-algorithms, you can bring it down to 275ms (uses 19MB of mem).

• Some light investigation regarding ByteString's IsString instance, and its conclusions
  1 project | /r/haskell | 22 Jun 2022
• Haskell - Important Libraries
  11 projects | /r/haskell | 24 Mar 2022

  bytestring

• [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.2 is now available!
  4 projects | /r/haskell | 7 Mar 2022

  Note that this release is broken for Windows.

• Beginner level tutorial - bytestring
  1 project | /r/haskellquestions | 17 Dec 2021

  I've opened https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/issues/455 so the situation can be improved. You're very welcome to chime in on the discussion or to contribute some of the missing documentation yourself! :)

• bytestring-0.11.2.0
  1 project | /r/haskell | 8 Dec 2021

  Highlights from the changelog:

• [Haskell]
  1 project | /r/ProgrammerAnimemes | 28 Nov 2021
• Dragging Haskell Kicking and Screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat :: Reasonably Polymorphic
  3 projects | /r/haskell | 13 Nov 2021

  Well, ByteString in particular should not have an IsString instance in a new report. That's pretty clear by https://github.com/haskell/bytestring/issues/140 : the concensus is that there is no good solution right now, but it should not have gotten an IsString instance in the first place. If a theoretical new Haskell Report 202x includes OverloadedStrings (as it should) to handle string literals analogously to numeric literals, I'd expect it to not give ByteString (which is really just a collection of octets) an IsString instance, with all it's issues and rattail due to the encoding question being implicitized.

• How can Haskell programmers tolerate Space Leaks?
  5 projects | /r/haskell | 26 Sep 2021

  Standard streaming libraries. They are being written by people that make the effort to understand performance and I have a hope that they make sure their streams run in linear space under any optimizations. It is curious and unsettling that we have standard lazy text and byte streams at the same time — and the default lazy lists, of course. I have been doing some work on byte streams and what I found out is that there is no way to check that your folds are actually space constant even if the value in question is a primitive, like say a byte — thunks may explode and then collapse over the run time of a single computation, defying any effort at inspection.

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