[Haskell-cafe] A very edgy language

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

andrewcoppin:
> 
> Does anybody have any clue why ByteStrings are actually faster? (And why 
> this information isn't easily findable anywhere - must shorly be a VFAQ.)
> 

It's well documented in the API documentation for bytestrings.

Start here:
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/Data-ByteString-Lazy.html

And then read:
    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/papers/CSL06.html

Cheers,
  Don