26 May
2007
26 May
'07
11:30 p.m.
Jason Dagit wrote:
I think, given my simple algorithm that means that (==) for ByteStrings is slower than (==) for String. Is this possible?
Yes indeed. Over ByteStrings, (==) is implemented as a call to memcmp.
For small strings, this loses by a large margin because it has to go
through the FFI.