On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer@web.de> wrote:

String can be quite memory efficient. As a stupid example,

length (replicate 10000000 'a')

will need less memory than the equivalents using ByteString or Text.

Actually, this will be fused with Data.Text, and should execute more quickly and in less space than String.