Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings - why [Char] is not nice

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:11:34PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:

Size

Handling large amounts of text as haskell strings is currently not possible as the representation (list of chars) is very inefficient.

You know about the PackedString functions, right? http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.0/html/base/Data.PackedString.html Peace, Dylan