On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com>wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ivan Miljenovic < > ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wow, I find it rather surprising that String out-performs Text; any >> idea why that is? I wonder if you're just using it wrong... >> >> Could be, I'd be very happy if that were the case. All of the benchmarks > are available on Github, and the bytestring[1], text[2] and string[3] > versions are all rather short. > Do you include the cost of encoding the result as e.g. UTF-8? The hope would be that the more compact Text would be faster to traverse, and thus encode, than the list based String.
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