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

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Andrew Coppin writes:

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More importantly: How does the average random Haskeller discover that a package has become available that might be relevant to their work?

Look on Hackage; subscribe to mailing lists (where package maintainers should really write announcement emails), etc.

OK. I guess I must have missed that one...

It's rather surprising you haven't heard of text: it is for benchmarking this that Bryan wrote criterion; there's emails on -cafe and blog posts that mention it on a semi-regular basis, etc.

Well, I suppose I don't do a lot of text processing work... If all you're trying to do is parse commands from an interactive terminal prompt, [Char] is probably good enough. (What I do do is process big chunks of binary data - which is what ByteString is intended for.)