On 27 May 2010 18:23, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ivan Miljenovic > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 27 May 2010 17:55, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Two comments: >> > * The exclamation point seems good enough for attributes. I copied that >> > for >> > Hamlet as well. >> > * If you're standardizing on UTF-8, why not support bytestrings? I'm >> > aware >> > that a user could shoot him/herself in the foot by passing in non-UTF8 >> > data, >> > but I would imagine the performance gains would outweigh this. My recent >> > benchmarks on the BigTable benchmark[1] imply a huge performance gap >> > between >> > ByteStrings and other contenders. >> >> 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.
Does using lazy Text values improve this? I find it a little strange that you concatenate so many individual Strings that much. Also, how about explicitly using Text values rather than OverloadedStrings? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [email protected] IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
