Re: [Haskell-cafe] List x ByteString x Lazy Bytestring

Oh, sorry, my bad. I misunderstood the dependency. 2011/12/5 Johan Tibell

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Yves Parès wrote:

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However the performance issues seem odd: text is based on bytestring.

This is not the case. Text is based on ByteArray#, GHC internal type for blocks of bytes. The text package depends on the bytestring package because it allows you to encode/decode Text<->ByteString.

-- Johan