[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Kevin Jardine]

Surely a lot of real world text processing programs are IO intensive?
So if there is no native Text IO and everything needs to be read in /
written out as ByteString data converted to/from Text this strikes me
as a major performance sink.

Or is there native Text IO but just not in your example?

Kevin

On Aug 13, 8:57 pm, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc... at web.de> wrote:
> Just occurred to me, a lot of the difference is due to the fact that text
> has to convert a ByteString to Text on reading the file, so I timed that by
> reading the file and counting the chunks, that took text 0.21s for big.txt
> vs. Data.ByteString.Lazy's 0.01s.
> So for searching in-memory strings, subtract about 0.032s/MB from the
> difference - it's still large.
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