Warp wrote:

>   Someone else said that string are actually linked lists of characters
> where each character is garbage-collected. This must require humongous
> amounts of memory, especially considering that one character would only
> require 1 byte...

No - it's Unicode. 24 bits per character. ;-)

But yes, the standard Haskell string type is geared to flexibility, not 
performance. See my ByteString comments...

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