On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <[email protected]> wrote: > For example, I assume that it's better to try and use Text throughout > rather than continually packing String values (in my case, I'm looking > at using Text for I/O in graphviz; should I then start using Text > rather than String for all the parameters?).
Yes. Just like with ByteString, frequent packs or unpacks kills performance. The only thing I pack is compile time constants (and, at least for ByteStrings, that's cheap). Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
