name: buffer-builder version: 0.1.0.0 synopsis: Library for efficiently building up buffers, one piece at a time description: 'BufferBuilder' is an efficient library for incrementally building up 'ByteString's, one chunk at a time. Early benchmarks show it is over twice as fast as ByteString Builder, primarily because 'BufferBuilder' is built upon an ST-style restricted monad and mutable state instead of ByteString Builder's monoidal AST. . Internally, BufferBuilder is backed by a few C functions. Examination of GHC's output shows nearly optimal code generation with no intermediate thunks -- and thus, continuation passing and its associated indirect jumps and stack traffic only occur when BufferBuilder is asked to append a non-strict ByteString. . I benchmarked four major implementations and benchmarked with the buildURL benchmark: . * State monad, concatenating ByteStrings: __6.98 us__ . * State monad, ByteString Builder: __2.48 us__ . * Crazy explicit RealWorld baton passing with unboxed state: __28.94 us__ (GHC generated really awful code for this, but see the revision history for the technique) . * C + FFI + ReaderT: __1.11 us__ . Using BufferBuilder is very simple: . > import qualified Data.BufferBuilder as BB > > let byteString = BB.runBufferBuilder $ do > BB.appendBS "http" > BB.appendChar8 '/' > BB.appendBS "//" license: BSD3 license-file: LICENSE author: Chad Austin maintainer: chad@chadaustin.me copyright: IMVU Inc., Chad Austin category: Data build-type: Simple stability: experimental homepage: https://github.com/chadaustin/buffer-builder cabal-version: >=1.10 library exposed-modules: Data.BufferBuilder build-depends: base ==4.* , bytestring , mtl default-language: Haskell2010 ghc-options: -O2 -Wall c-sources: buffer.cpp cc-options: -O2 -Wall test-suite tests type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 main-is: Main.hs hs-source-dirs: test default-language: Haskell2010 ghc-options: -O2 -Wall build-depends: base ==4.* , buffer-builder , tasty , tasty-hunit , tasty-th , HUnit benchmark bench type: exitcode-stdio-1.0 main-is: Bench.hs hs-source-dirs: bench default-language: Haskell2010 ghc-options: -O2 -Wall -ddump-ds -ddump-simpl -ddump-stg -ddump-opt-cmm -ddump-asm -ddump-to-file build-depends: base ==4.* , bytestring , buffer-builder , criterion