[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Ketil Malde]

Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> writes:

> Here's a rule of thumb: If you have binary data, use Data.ByteString. If you
> have text, use Data.Text.

If you have a large amount of mostly ASCII text, use ByteString, since
Data.Text uses twice the storage.  Also, ByteString might make more
sense if the data is in a byte-oriented encoding, and the cost of
encoding and decoding utf-16 would be significant.

-k
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