[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Johan,

Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 12:20:37 PM, you wrote:

>  I agree, Data.Text is great.  Unfortunately, its internal use of UTF-16
>  makes it inefficient for many purposes.

> It's not clear to me that using UTF-16 internally does make
> Data.Text noticeably slower.

not slower but require 2x more memory. speed is the same since
Unicode contains 2^20 codepoints


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