String != [Char]

Greg Weber greg at gregweber.info
Fri Mar 23 20:26:30 CET 2012


> With regards to performance of fromString, I feel like if it was a
> serious problem (and how many really big strings are going to be built
> that way?) then an effort to do some special-case inlining (after all,
> the parameters are constant and specified at compile time) might be
> beneficial.

Actually, inlining is a already a big problem with Text
https://github.com/bos/text/issues/19



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