[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[wren ng thornton]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 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

When should we expect to see the HEAD stamped and numbered? After some 
of the recent benchmark dueling re web frameworks, I know Text got a bad 
rap compared to ByteString. It'd be good to stop the FUD early. 
Repeating the above in the announcement should help a lot.

-- 
Live well,
~wren