[Haskell-cafe] lazy boxed array and builder?

[Yves Parès]

I remember this discussion, lazy vectors would also enable an
implementation of bytestring and (maybe) text only with unboxed vectors,
unifying it all:
type ByteString = Vector Word8

2012/7/12 Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com>

> he recent discussion of whether storablevector should be deprecated in
> favor of vector reminded me: vector supports storable arrays, but it
> doesn't support lazy arrays.  While storablevector has lazy arrays and
> a builder, it doesn't support boxed types (it would be become misnamed
> if it did!).
>
> So it seems the niche of boxed lazy arrays is unfilled.  And if vector
> grew a lazy variant it could subsume storablevector and we could
> consolidate array libraries a little more.  It seems a lot of Writer
> monad type stuff (logging etc.) could be made more efficient with a
> boxed lazy array builder, at the cost of rougher grained laziness.
>
> Does such a thing already exist?  I'd check hackage, but it's down...
>
> http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://hackage.haskell.org/
>
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