spool: Convert between ByteString and Vector.Storable without copying

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This library allows conversion between the types from Data.ByteString (package bytestring) and Data.Vector.Storable (package vector) without copying the underlying data. This is useful, for example, when ByteString IO produces or consumes vectors of numbers in native byte order.

This trick relies on the fact that ByteString and Vector use their respective ForeignPtrs in compatible ways. It works with bytestring-0.9.1.10 and vector-0.9 on GHC 7.0. It may break with future releases of these packages. Depending on this library should be seen as a way to document and standardize an existing hack, and not as an absolute guarantee of correct behavior.


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Versions [RSS] 0.1
Dependencies base (>=3 && <5), bytestring (>=0.9), vector (>=0.7) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Keegan McAllister <mcallister.keegan@gmail.com>
Maintainer Keegan McAllister <mcallister.keegan@gmail.com>
Category Data Structures
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/kmcallister/spool.git
Uploaded by KeeganMcAllister at 2011-09-15T03:44:31Z
Distributions Debian:0.1, NixOS:0.1
Reverse Dependencies 7 direct, 3 indirect [details]
Downloads 4791 total (32 in the last 30 days)
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Readme for spool-0.1

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spool provides conversion between ByteString and Vector.Storable without
copying the underlying data.

Documentation is hosted at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/spool

To build the documentation yourself, run

  $ cabal configure && cabal haddock --hyperlink-source

This will produce HTML documentation under dist/doc/html/spool.