Bug#376829: ITP: haskell-bytestring -- Extremely fast Haskell I/O library using packed strings

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>

* Package name    : haskell-bytestring
  Version         : 0.6
  Upstream Author : Don Stewart
* URL             : http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps.html
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Haskell
  Description     : Extremely fast Haskell I/O library using packed strings
 Data.ByteString (formerly FastPackedString/FPS) provides packed
 strings (byte arrays held by a ForeignPtr), along with a list
 interface to these strings. It lets you do extremely fast IO in
 Haskell; in some cases, even faster than typical C implementations,
 and much faster than [Char]. It uses a flexible "foreign pointer"
 representation, allowing the transparent use of Haskell or C code to
 manipulate the strings.
 .
 Data.ByteString is written in Haskell98 + the foreign function
 interface and cpp. It has been tested succesfully with GHC 6.4 and
 6.5, and hugs March 2005.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)