text-short: Memory-efficient representation of Unicode text strings
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 doesn't support zero-copy slicing (thereby saving 2 words), and, compared to text-1.*, that it uses UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 internally. 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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| asserts | Enable runtime-checks via | Disabled |
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.3, 0.1.4, 0.1.5, 0.1.6, 0.1.6.1 |
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| Change log | ChangeLog.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.12 && <4.23), binary (>=0.8.6.0 && <0.9), bytestring (>=0.10.8.2 && <0.13), deepseq (>=1.4.4.0 && <1.6), ghc-prim (>=0.5.3 && <0.14), hashable (>=1.4.4.0 && <1.6), template-haskell (>=2.14.0.0 && <2.25), text (>=1.2.3.1 && <1.3 || >=2.0 && <2.2) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==8.6.5 || ==8.8.3 || ==8.10.7 || ==9.0.2 || ==9.2.8 || ==9.4.8 || ==9.6.6 || ==9.8.4 || ==9.10.2 || ==9.12.2 || ==9.14.1 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Author | Herbert Valerio Riedel |
| Maintainer | hvr@gnu.org |
| Category | Data |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/hvr/text-short/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/hvr/text-short.git |
| Uploaded | by phadej at 2026-01-04T20:24:58Z |
| Distributions | Arch:0.1.6, Debian:0.1.3, Fedora:0.1.6, LTSHaskell:0.1.6.1, NixOS:0.1.6, Stackage:0.1.6.1, openSUSE:0.1.6 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 61 direct, 8515 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 40291 total (32 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.25 (votes: 2) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2026-01-04 [all 1 reports] |