wren: > Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: >> As a case in point, I took the string search benchmark that Daniel shared >> on Friday, and boiled it down to a simple test case: how long does it take >> to read a 31MB file? >> >> GNU wc -m: >> >> - en_US.UTF-8: 0.701s >> >> text 0.7.1.0: >> >> - lazy text: 1.959s >> - strict text: 3.527s >> >> darcs HEAD: >> >> - lazy text: 0.749s >> - strict text: 0.927s > > When should we expect to see the HEAD stamped and numbered? After some > of the recent benchmark dueling re web frameworks, I know Text got a bad > rap compared to ByteString. It'd be good to stop the FUD early. > Repeating the above in the announcement should help a lot.
For what its worth, for several bytestring announcements I published comprehensive function-by-function comparisions of performance on enormous data sets, until there was unambiguous evidence bytestring was faster than List. E.g http://www.mail-archive.com/hask...@haskell.org/msg18596.html _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe