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

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 22 October 2010 16:38, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:
> [Blog copy of the announcement here.]
>
> I just pushed it to bitbucket and github, and you can install it from
> the text site on Hackage in the usual way:
>
> cabal update
> cabal install text
>
> What's in this release?
>
> New functions for reading integers and floating point numbers, 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. 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. 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.

Is there a "best practices" guide on how to deal with Text values?

For example, I assume that it's better to try and use Text throughout
rather than continually packing String values (in my case, I'm looking
at using Text for I/O in graphviz; should I then start using Text
rather than String for all the parameters?).

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