On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Johan Tibell <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > No, but this is done on purpose. One of my goals in this benchmark was to determine whether I should consider switching Hamlet to ByteStrings. If I were to do so, then the UTF-8 encoding would be done at compile-time instead of run-time. You're correct that a fair comparison would be to UTF-8 encode the Strings as well. However, that's not what most users are going to do most of the time: when dealing with ASCII data, a straight Char8.pack encoding will do the same as UTF-8. I'm simply pointing out that I think Blaze should support this style. Michael
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