Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

2010-08-17 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Johan, Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 1:06:30 PM, you wrote: So it's not clear to me that using UTF-16 makes the program noticeably slower or use more memory on a real program. it's clear misunderstanding. of course, not every program holds much text data in memory. but some does, and here

Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

2010-08-17 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Tako, Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 12:46:35 PM, you wrote: not slower but require 2x more memory. speed is the same since Unicode contains 2^20 codepoints This is not entirely correct because it all depends on your data. of course i mean ascii chars -- Best regards, Bulat