diff --git a/data/hlint.yaml b/data/hlint.yaml
index f007f2b2..ca08cd2c 100644
--- a/data/hlint.yaml
+++ b/data/hlint.yaml
@@ -1476,6 +1476,35 @@
     - warn: {lhs: foldr' f c (reverse x), rhs: foldl' (flip f) c x, name: Use left fold instead of right fold}
     - warn: {lhs: foldl' f c (reverse x), rhs: foldr (flip f) c x, note: IncreasesLaziness, name: Use right fold instead of left fold}
 
+- group:
+    name: performance
+    enabled: false
+    rules:
+
+    # Text / ByteString strict left folds. The lazy `foldl` over these
+    # bulk-data types builds a thunk chain proportional to the element
+    # count, which blows the stack on realistic inputs. `foldl'` is a
+    # drop-in, same-module replacement whenever the accumulator is
+    # strict-amenable (which it almost always is for numeric counters,
+    # Builders, strict Maps, etc.). Match fully-qualified names only so
+    # the rule does not fire on the unrelated Foldable-polymorphic
+    # `foldl` from Prelude/Data.Foldable.
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.Text.foldl f z t, rhs: Data.Text.foldl' f z t, name: "Use foldl'"}
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.Text.Lazy.foldl f z t, rhs: Data.Text.Lazy.foldl' f z t, name: "Use foldl'"}
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.ByteString.foldl f z b, rhs: Data.ByteString.foldl' f z b, name: "Use foldl'"}
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.ByteString.Lazy.foldl f z b, rhs: Data.ByteString.Lazy.foldl' f z b, name: "Use foldl'"}
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.ByteString.Char8.foldl f z b, rhs: Data.ByteString.Char8.foldl' f z b, name: "Use foldl'"}
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8.foldl f z b, rhs: Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8.foldl' f z b, name: "Use foldl'"}
+
+    # Text concat-of-map fuses into concatMap, avoiding the intermediate
+    # [Text] spine and its associated allocation. Semantics-preserving:
+    # `Data.Text.concatMap f = Data.Text.concat . map f` by construction.
+    # Not applied to ByteString: `Data.ByteString.concatMap` has type
+    # (Word8 -> ByteString) -> ByteString -> ByteString, so it is NOT
+    # the fusion of `concat . map` over `[ByteString]`.
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.Text.concat (map f xs), rhs: Data.Text.concatMap f xs, name: "Use Data.Text.concatMap"}
+    - warn: {lhs: Data.Text.Lazy.concat (map f xs), rhs: Data.Text.Lazy.concatMap f xs, name: "Use Data.Text.Lazy.concatMap"}
+
 - group:
     # used for tests, enabled when testing this file
     name: testing
diff --git a/tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.test b/tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a37ac3ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.test
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+FILE tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs
+import qualified Data.Text as T
+import qualified Data.Text.Lazy as TL
+import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as BL
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BSC
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as BLC
+ft f z t = print (T.foldl f z t)
+ftl f z t = print (TL.foldl f z t)
+fbs f z b = print (BS.foldl f z b)
+fbl f z b = print (BL.foldl f z b)
+fbsc f z b = print (BSC.foldl f z b)
+fblc f z b = print (BLC.foldl f z b)
+ct f xs = print (T.concat (map f xs))
+ctl f xs = print (TL.concat (map f xs))
+RUN "--with-group=performance" tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs
+OUTPUT
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:7:19-31: Warning: Use foldl'
+Found:
+  T.foldl f z t
+Perhaps:
+  T.foldl' f z t
+
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:8:20-33: Warning: Use foldl'
+Found:
+  TL.foldl f z t
+Perhaps:
+  TL.foldl' f z t
+
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:9:20-33: Warning: Use foldl'
+Found:
+  BS.foldl f z b
+Perhaps:
+  BS.foldl' f z b
+
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:10:20-33: Warning: Use foldl'
+Found:
+  BL.foldl f z b
+Perhaps:
+  BL.foldl' f z b
+
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:11:21-35: Warning: Use foldl'
+Found:
+  BSC.foldl f z b
+Perhaps:
+  BSC.foldl' f z b
+
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:12:21-35: Warning: Use foldl'
+Found:
+  BLC.foldl f z b
+Perhaps:
+  BLC.foldl' f z b
+
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:13:18-36: Warning: Use Data.Text.concatMap
+Found:
+  T.concat (map f xs)
+Perhaps:
+  T.concatMap f xs
+
+tests/flag-with-group-performance-text-bs.hs:14:19-38: Warning: Use Data.Text.Lazy.concatMap
+Found:
+  TL.concat (map f xs)
+Perhaps:
+  TL.concatMap f xs
+
+8 hints
+