Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> writes: > Interesting. I've never even heard of Data.Text. When did that come > into existence?
The first version hit Hackage in February last year... > More importantly: How does the average random Haskeller discover that > a package has become available that might be relevant to their work? Look on Hackage; subscribe to mailing lists (where package maintainers should really write announcement emails), etc. It's rather surprising you haven't heard of text: it is for benchmarking this that Bryan wrote criterion; there's emails on -cafe and blog posts that mention it on a semi-regular basis, etc. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
