Ideas for better bytestring builder
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As https://github.com/haskell-perf/strict-bytestring-builders pointed out, current Data.ByteString.Builder tends to be slow especially when primitives are small.
Some alternatives have good benchmark results (cf https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/e6yg76/mason_faster_bytestring_builder/ ,https://github.com/fumieval/mason#performance, http://hackage.haskell.org/package/fast-builder); we may be able to take some tricks from those.
It also makes sense to expand the API so that
* Can build strict ByteString directly
* return the length after `hPutBuilder`
I think it's important that the internal API are exposed. At the moment it's difficult to send the contents of Builder over a socket due to `BuildSignal` being opaque.
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