On Feb 1, 2013 1:15 PM, "Oliver Charles" <ollie@ocharles.org.uk> wrote:
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> Urgh, the formatting got totally destroyed in sending, I think. If so, here's a paste of my email as I intended it to be sent:
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> http://hpaste.org/81648
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> Sorry about that!
> - Ocharles
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If I make a special case for text based UUIDs in aeson:

data Value = ... | UUID Text | ...

Data.Aeson.Encode.fromValue (UUID s) = singleton '"' <> fromText s <> singleton '"'

Then encoding time improves by 20%.

So a big part of the time is spent encoding the UUID strings.

Bas