[erlang-bugs] Re: UTF8 string handling in different erlang:*** functions

[Paulo Sérgio Almeida]

On 3/29/11 3:10 PM, Nico Kruber wrote:
>> 1000000 iterations of "erlang:term_to_binary/1" took 0.02946s:
> 33944331.2966734541/s
>> 1000000 iterations of "unicode:characters_to_binary/1" took 0.667519s:
> 1498084.69871269591/s
>
> ->  looks like I should chose erlang:term_to_binary/1 since at least on my
> machine is is around twice as fast.
It's not twice but 20 times as fast. Amazing. Even though it should be 
slower, this slower is surprising.

Regards,
Paulo