Revision history for small-bytearray-builder

0.3.0.0 -- 2019-10-17

Breaking change: Change the internal implementation of Builder. This now works a lot more like the builder from bytestring. It accumulates chunks and can do a zero-copy appends when working with a sufficiently large immutable chunk. This introduces a mild performance regression (around 10%), but it makes the libary more generally useful.
Introduce consLengthBE32 and consLength64BE for efficient serialization of wire protocols that require prefixing a payload with its length.
Add int{16,32,64}BE and int{16,32,64LE} as conveniences.
Add little-endian encoding functions for Word16, Word32, and Word64.
Add big-endian and little-endian functions for copying a PrimArray of numbers (both signed and unsigned) into a builder.
Add flush, copy, and insert for better control when converting byte sequences to builders.
Add shortByteString to improve interoperability with the bytestring library.

Stop exporting data constructor in Data.ByteArray.Builder. This is technically a breaking change, but it was only exported by accident. So, with this release, we will technically violate PVP, and the previous release will be deprecated on hackage.
Add more functions for encoding unsigned words: word16PaddedLowerHex, word16LowerHex, word16UpperHex, word8LowerHex.
Unroll loop for word8Dec.

Use natural-arithmetic to make manipulation of bounds possible.
Add more functions for encoding numbers. This includes word8/16/32/64 and int8/16/32/64.
Rename the modules.
Correct a serious error in the implementation of bytes.
Make pasteGrowST accept an initial offset.
Add a pasteGrowST for length-indexed builders.
Add function for rendering floating-point numbers in a slightly inaccurate way.
Add functions for encoding ShortText as UTF-8 and as a JSON string.