buffer-builder: Library for efficiently building up buffers, one piece at a time

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Data.BufferBuilder is an efficient library for incrementally building up ByteStrings, 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 approaches with a URL encoding benchmark:

Using BufferBuilder is very simple:

import qualified Data.BufferBuilder as BB

let byteString = BB.runBufferBuilder $ do
      BB.appendBS "http"
      BB.appendChar8 '/'
      BB.appendBS "//"

This package also provides Data.BufferBuilder.Utf8 for generating UTF-8 buffers and Data.BufferBuilder.Json for encoding data structures into JSON.

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Versions 0.1.0.0, 0.2.0.0, 0.2.0.1, 0.2.0.2, 0.2.0.3, 0.2.1.0, 0.2.1.0, 0.2.2.0, 0.2.2.1, 0.2.2.2, 0.2.3.0, 0.2.4.0, 0.2.4.1, 0.2.4.2, 0.2.4.3, 0.2.4.4, 0.2.4.5, 0.2.4.6, 0.2.4.7, 0.2.4.8
Change log changelog.md
Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), bytestring, mtl, text, unordered-containers, vector [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright IMVU Inc., Chad Austin, Andy Friesen
Author Chad Austin, Andy Friesen
Maintainer chad@chadaustin.me
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Home page https://github.com/chadaustin/buffer-builder
Uploaded by chadaustin at 2015-02-27T22:43:07Z

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