Am Montag 19 April 2010 14:37:33 schrieb John Lato: > Is it really necessary to use Strings? I think a packed type, e.g. > Vector or ByteString, would be much more efficient here.
Not very much if the strings are fairly short (and the list isn't too long, so there's not a big difference in cache-friendliness). If eight-bit characters aren't enough, packing the strings into UArray Int Char gives performance quite close to ByteStrings. > Of course this is only likely to be a benefit if you can move away from > String entirely. > > I suspect that "hamming2" would perform better then. > > John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
