Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

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"Ketil" == Ketil Malde writes:

Ketil> Johan Tibell writes: >> It's not clear to me that using UTF-16 internally does make >> Data.Text noticeably slower. Ketil> I think that *IF* we are aiming for a single, grand, unified Ketil> text library to Rule Them All, it needs to use UTF-8. Ketil> Alternatively, we can have different libraries with different Ketil> representations for different purposes, where you'll get Ketil> another few percent of juice by switching to the most Ketil> appropriate. Why not instead allow the programmer to decide at the function level which internal encoding to use? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments