[darcs-devel] darcs patch: FastPackedString.hs: rw linesPS using By... (and 5 more)

[Don Stewart]

droundy:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:06:43AM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> >  Thu Apr 10 23:45:45 EDT 2008
> >   * rm OldFastPackedString.hs
> 
> I'm rather confused.  Do you have some reason for eliminating the existing
> non-buggy FastPackedString? Besides the fact that I don't have bytestring
> installed, it seems like now is when it would be especially valuable to
> you, since you're engaged in rewriting the current buggy bytestring code,
> and it would be useful to have a correct reference to which you could
> compare.
> 
> Could you resend without removing the existing implementation?

I would be very very very careful changing this code.  Is there a good
reason to switch to bytestring? And if so, serious testing should be
done.

-- Don