Converting things to and from binary

[Hal Daume III]

I think it depends on whether you're talking about writing to files or to
memory.  In files, I believe it's about 20% slower using bits (IO is slow
blah blah blah); in memory it's probably more like your 250% :).

 - Hal

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 Hal Daume III                                   | hdaume@isi.edu
 "Arrest this man, he talks in maths."           | www.isi.edu/~hdaume

On Wed, 21 May 2003, Simon Marlow wrote:

>  
> 
> > Several tests by SimonM and I have shown 
> > that the bit style is about 20% slower than the byte style.
> 
> Really?  I seem to recall it was more like 250% :-)
> 
> http://haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2002-December/000742.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
>