On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ivan Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, I find it rather surprising that String out-performs Text; any
idea why that is?  I wonder if you're just using it wrong...

Could be, I'd be very happy if that were the case. All of the benchmarks are available on Github, and the bytestring[1], text[2] and string[3] versions are all rather short.

Do you include the cost of encoding the result as e.g. UTF-8? The hope would be that the more compact Text would be faster to traverse, and thus encode, than the list based String.