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@tfausak Modified the issue.

@TravisCardwell I admit I missed that initial part, but the heading 'Version Support' doesn't really indicate this very well.

@deech @Kleidukos and I are looking at the example and working out a way forward: thanks for that!

For what it's worth, I've been doing matching perf shoot-outs between `text` and [`text-ascii`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-ascii) (which uses `bytestring` under the hood). Originally, `text-ascii` used [NSN](https://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/node13.html), but this turned out to be...

@Bodigrim - you are. It gets better - it's about a factor of 4 worse than _even this_ on GHC 9 (these results are GHC 8.6).

@Bodigrim Not presently. I'm trying to get my own house in order, since I'm not in charge of (or involved in) `text`, but `text-ascii` is mine and mine alone. I...

@Bodigrim Once I've figured out my weird alloc-related issue, I'll definitely post a repro on `text`'s issue tracker, with more specifics.

@emilypi - any news on a new release?

The changelog missing the relevant entry was indeed my bad, and I did fix it in #114. This does need to be updated on Hackage admittedly, but I believe that's...

@andreasabel It was not - I've commented on the original issue, and plan to issue a fix today.