text-short

Memory-efficient representation of Unicode text strings

Version on this page:0.1
LTS Haskell 24.18:0.1.6@rev:3
Stackage Nightly 2025-11-04:0.1.6@rev:3
Latest on Hackage:0.1.6@rev:3

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Herbert Valerio Riedel
Maintained by [email protected]
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Module documentation for 0.1

Used by 1 package in nightly-2017-08-09(full list with versions):
cassava

This package provides the ShortText type which is suitable for keeping many short strings in memory. This is similiar to how ShortByteString relates to ByteString.

The main difference between Text and ShortText is that ShortText uses UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 internally and also doesn't support slicing (thereby saving 2 words). Consequently, the memory footprint of a (boxed) ShortText value is 4 words (2 words when unboxed) plus the length of the UTF-8 encoded payload.

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Revision history for text-short

0.1

  • First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.