https://github.com/haskell/bytestring

An efficient compact, immutable byte string type (both strict and lazy) suitable for binary or 8-bit character data.
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An efficient compact, immutable byte string type (both strict and lazy) suitable for binary or 8-bit character data.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/haskell/bytestring
• Owner: haskell
• License: other
• Created: 2013-02-15T19:06:34.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-14T20:17:55.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T00:49:07.493Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Haskell
• Homepage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring
• Size: 13.3 MB
• Stars: 282
• Watchers: 21
• Forks: 137
• Open Issues: 81
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: Changelog.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ByteString: Fast, Packed Strings of Bytes

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This library provides the `Data.ByteString` module -- strict and lazy

byte arrays manipulable as strings -- providing very time/space-efficient

string and IO operations.

For very large data requirements, or constraints on heap size,

`Data.ByteString.Lazy` is provided, a lazy list of bytestring chunks.

Efficient processing of multi-gigabyte data can be achieved this way.

The library also provides `Data.ByteString.Builder` for efficient construction

of `ByteString` values from smaller pieces during binary serialization.

Requirements:

  * Cabal 2.2 or greater

  * GHC 8.4 or greater

### Authors

`ByteString` was derived from the GHC `PackedString` library,

originally written by Bryan O'Sullivan, and then by Simon Marlow.

It was adapted and greatly extended for darcs by David Roundy and

others. Don Stewart and Duncan Coutts cleaned up and further extended

the implementation and added the `.Lazy` code. Simon Meier contributed

the `Builder` feature.