On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 22:42 +0100, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > sorry, Dons, > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alberto G. Corona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/11/18 > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] implementing python-style dictionary in > Haskell > To: Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > By the way byteStrings are wonderful, but, it isn´t true that > byteStrings are not so fast for managing short strings, for example > keys ?
For short strings they're fast to use but not fast to construct and not very memory efficient. There's 20 bytes overhead per ByteString. A packed string type optimised for short strings would make different design decisions. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
