[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>wrote:

>
>    - If it's not good enough, and the fault lies in a library you chose,
>    report a bug and provide a test case.
>
> As a case in point, I took the string search benchmark that Daniel shared
on Friday, and boiled it down to a simple test case: how long does it take
to read a 31MB file?

GNU wc -m:

   - en_US.UTF-8: 0.701s

text 0.7.1.0:

   - lazy text: 1.959s
   - strict text: 3.527s

darcs HEAD:

   - lazy text: 0.749s
   - strict text: 0.927s
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