[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] text 0.10.0.0 - fast Unicode text handling

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

[Blog copy of the announcement
here<http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/22/text-0-10-0-0-is-here/>
.]

I just pushed it to bitbucket <http://bitbucket.org/bos/text> and
github<http://github.com/bos/text>,
and you can install it from the text site on
Hackage<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text> in
the usual way:

cabal update
cabal install text

What's in this release?

   -

   New functions for reading integers and floating point
numbers<http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/text/0.10.0.0/doc/html/Data-Text-Read.html>,
   an oft-requested feature. They're fast, too: they range from parity with
   their bytestring counterparts, to up to 4 times faster. You can expect to
   parse 3 to 4 million Int values per second out of a text file, or up 2
   million Double values per second. They're also easy to use, give error
   messages, and come in strict and lazy variants.
   -

   UTF-8 decoding and encoding are now very
fast<http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/15/unicode-text-performance-improvements/>.
   They're up to 9x faster than they were, and close to the performance of pure
   C UTF-8 decoding and encoding.
   -

   The Eq and Ord instances are also now very fast, up to 5x faster than
   before<http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/19/a-brief-tale-of-faster-equality/>.
   They're now faster than the bytestring instances.
   -

   Several other common functions received drive-by performance improvements
   too.
   -

   Better protection against rare crashes on really huge volumes of data.
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