On 22 Jun 2011, at 15:53, Tristan Ravitch wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:48:40AM +0100, Stephen Tetley wrote:
How fast is good old String rather than ByteString?
For lexing, String is a good fit (cheap deconstruction at the head /
front). For your particular case, maybe it loses due to
On 26/06/2011, at 10:19 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
There is an old folklore that lexing is usually the most expensive phase of
any compiler-like traversal. 50% of time and space expended on lexing was
pretty common twenty years ago.
Indeed it is old, but no, it isn't folklore, you'll find
How fast is good old String rather than ByteString?
For lexing, String is a good fit (cheap deconstruction at the head /
front). For your particular case, maybe it loses due to the large file
size, maybe it doesn't...
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:48:40AM +0100, Stephen Tetley wrote:
How fast is good old String rather than ByteString?
For lexing, String is a good fit (cheap deconstruction at the head /
front). For your particular case, maybe it loses due to the large file
size, maybe it doesn't...
I gave it
