[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: text 0.8.0.0, fast Unicode text support

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:14 PM, John Millikin <jmillikin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a summary of the API changes available? I see a new module,
> but Precis is choking on Data.Text and Data.Text.Lazy, so I'm not sure
> what existing signatures have been modified.
>

Ouch. I'll try to do a diff and follow up, probably not until much later.


> Are there any areas in particular you'd like help with, for either
> library? I'm happy to assist any effort which will help reduce use of
> String.
>

For the text library, my main interest is performance. I've been far more
focused on making the code correct and complete than on making it fast, but
now that the API is stable and the test coverage is solid, performance
deserves more attention.

What specifics would be useful?

   - Reproducible, realistic (but preferably small) benchmarks
   - Patches that speed things up

Thanks for asking!
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