[Haskell-cafe] containers and maps

[Jake McArthur]

John Lato wrote:
> This looks to be essentially the same as the 'map' function in
> ListLike, and suffers from the same problem.  It won't have the
> performance characteristics of the native map functions.  Using e.g.
> ByteStrings, you're recreating a ByteString by snoc'ing elements.

Oh, I see now what you are after. You're right. This wouldn't play nice 
when creating ByteStrings (which is probably why there is no instance 
for Reducer Char ByteString).

> This might work with UVector (I intend to try it this evening); I
> don't know how well the fusion framework will hold up in class
> dictionaries.

Do report back, as I am curious as well.

> Still, the monoids package is very powerful (and I'd completely
> forgotten it).  Perhaps there's another approach that would work?

Yay, something to mull over! :)

- Jake