On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Ivan Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:
On 27 May 2010 17:55, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
> Two comments:
> * The exclamation point seems good enough for attributes. I copied that for
> Hamlet as well.
> * If you're standardizing on UTF-8, why not support bytestrings? I'm aware
> that a user could shoot him/herself in the foot by passing in non-UTF8 data,
> but I would imagine the performance gains would outweigh this. My recent
> benchmarks on the BigTable benchmark[1] imply a huge performance gap between
> ByteStrings and other contenders.

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.

Michael

[1] http://github.com/snoyberg/benchmarks/blob/master/bigtable/cgi/bytestring.hs
[2] http://github.com/snoyberg/benchmarks/blob/master/bigtable/cgi/text.hs
[3] http://github.com/snoyberg/benchmarks/blob/master/bigtable/cgi/string.hs