Re: Strange problem -- array is much slower than seq

[adrianv]

Its not about refuting your educated guess - because you know and we are only 
guessing. On the contrary its only for the understanding for the simpler minds 
like me  With increasing the ref count for the strings in the array I partly 
disabled the GC for these strings but not for the other GCed data. That's why 
it is faster than the array version, but still much slower than the seq version 
- I guess.