On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ivan Miljenovic <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>

Do you include the cost of encoding the result as e.g. UTF-8? The hope would
be that the more compact Text would be faster to traverse, and thus encode,
than the list based String.
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