[Haskell-cafe] Number overflow

[Thomas Conway]

On 7/12/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> What, as in the way that simple strings are lists, and you change it to
> something less flexible but faster if you actually need it?
>
> I suppose that makes some sense...

Not much. There is a very significant difference between the two.

The differences between Int and Integer operations are mostly constant factors.

The differences between String and ByteString operations are
algorithmic (consider length).

T.
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