[Haskell-beginners] Re: When to use ByteString rather than [Char] ... ?

[Maciej Piechotka]

On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 16:11 +0400, Mukhamed Karanashev wrote:
> Hi, James.
> Because "String" is represented by the "[Char]", each element of
> String is allocated individually. ByteString represents a string in a
> single array and hasn't overhead for allocating each char. 
> 

Hmm. I read somewhere that GHC optimizes it to handle it more as char *
if possible.

Could anyone clarify it?

Regards
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