[Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code: BlazeHTML RFC

Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Thu May 27 04:16:32 EDT 2010


On 27 May 2010 17:55, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> Two comments:
> * The exclamation point seems good enough for attributes. I copied that for
> Hamlet as well.
> * If you're standardizing on UTF-8, why not support bytestrings? I'm aware
> that a user could shoot him/herself in the foot by passing in non-UTF8 data,
> but I would imagine the performance gains would outweigh this. My recent
> benchmarks on the BigTable benchmark[1] imply a huge performance gap between
> ByteStrings and other contenders.

Wow, I find it rather surprising that String out-performs Text; any
idea why that is?  I wonder if you're just using it wrong...

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