RE: I/O overhead in opening and writing files

Even with Text.Show.ByteString, which is supposed to avoid unnecessary string conversions, performance does not improve. Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:05:19 -0700 Subject: Re: I/O overhead in opening and writing files From: bos@serpentine.com To: arc38813@hotmail.com CC: johan.tibell@gmail.com; glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:25 PM, J Baptist wrote: The problem may be that even with ByteStrings, we are stuck using show, and thus Strings, at some point. Wait, what are you actually trying to do? If you have a benchmark that's half sane and half bonkers (cf. use of show), then yeah, it's not going to do so well.