[Haskell-cafe] Haskell SQL backends: How is data handed over?

[Anthony Clayden]

> @Olaf You mean that formatting a Scientific number as String is more
efficient
> than formatting an Integer/Double in its usual representation?
> How about parsing?

I'm not going to defend the 'efficiency' of Haskell's String
formatting/parsing, but ...

What is your evidence that number/String is a concern here? It's all
happening in-memory.

Whereas sending whatever to SQL then needs putting it to disk, which is
orders-of-magnitude slower. (Or is this an in-memory database?)

This thread has already devoted more cycles to speculation than you're
going to reclaim through number formatting, methinks.
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