On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Sjoerd Visscher <[email protected]>wrote:

> JSON is a UNICODE format, like any modern format is today. ByteStrings are
> not going to work.


I don't understand this statement.  Why can one not make a parser from
ByteStrings that can decode UTF-8?

Luke


>
>
> If everybody starts yelling "ByteString" every time String performance is
> an issue, I don't see how Haskell is ever going to be a "real world
> programming language".
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Don Stewart wrote:
>
>  ketil:
>>
>>> "Levi Greenspan" <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>  Now I wonder why Text.JSON is so slow in comparison and what can be
>>>> done about it. Any ideas? Or is the test case invalid?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I haven't used JSON, but at first glance, I'd blame String IO.  Can't
>>> you decode from ByteString?
>>>
>>>
>> Text.JSON was never optimised for performance. It was designed for small
>> JSON objects. For things above 1M I'd suggest using Data.Binary (or a
>> quick JSON encoding over bytestrings). Shouldn't be too hard to prepare.
>>
>> -- Don
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