Malte Milatz wrote:
Stefan O'Rear:
[Char] is a linked list of pointers to heap-allocated fullword integers, 20 (40) bytes per character (assuming non-latin1).

Hey, I love ByteStrings!  ;-)

If only there were a way to write functions that transparently work on both [x] and ByteString...

(Well, I mean, there *is* - if you want to write *lots* of code by hand yourself...)

Anyone have any comments on how ByteString is different from, say, UArray Word8?

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