diff --git a/Database/SQLite/Simple/Internal.hs b/Database/SQLite/Simple/Internal.hs
--- a/Database/SQLite/Simple/Internal.hs
+++ b/Database/SQLite/Simple/Internal.hs
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import           Prelude hiding (catch)
 
 import           Control.Applicative
+import           Control.Monad.Fix (fix)
 import           Control.Exception
 import           Data.ByteString (ByteString)
 import           Data.ByteString.Char8()
@@ -65,16 +66,15 @@
 exec (Connection conn) q =
   bracket (Base.prepare conn q) Base.finalize stepStmt
 
--- Run a query a prepared statement
+
+-- Run a query on a prepared statement
 stepStmt :: Base.Statement -> IO Result
-stepStmt = go
-  where
-    go stmt = do
-      res <- Base.step stmt
-      case res of
-        Base.Row -> do
-          cols <- Base.columns stmt
-          next <- go stmt
-          return $ cols : next
-        Base.Done ->
-          return []
+stepStmt stmt =
+  flip fix [] $ \loop acc -> do
+    res <- Base.step stmt
+    case res of
+      Base.Done ->
+        return (reverse acc)
+      Base.Row -> do
+        !cols <- Base.columns stmt
+        loop (cols : acc)
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
 in turn borrows from
 [mysql-simple](https://github.com/bos/mysql-simple).
 
-The library has been fairly well unit tested, but I still consider it
-somewhat experimental.
+The library has been fairly well unit tested.  It's also been benchmarked using
+[db-bench](https://github.com/nurpax/db-bench) which is a performance comparison suite 
+for measuring database access overhead when using the various Haskell database libraries.
 
 [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/nurpax/sqlite-simple.png)](http://travis-ci.org/nurpax/sqlite-simple)
 
@@ -24,6 +25,8 @@
 ```
 cabal install sqlite-simple
 ```
+
+A Windows user?  It works but please see [this note](https://gist.github.com/3907344) on direct-sqlite Windows installation.
 
 Examples of use
 ---------------
diff --git a/sqlite-simple.cabal b/sqlite-simple.cabal
--- a/sqlite-simple.cabal
+++ b/sqlite-simple.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                sqlite-simple
-Version:             0.2.0.0
+Version:             0.2.1.0
 Synopsis:            Mid-Level SQLite client library
 Description:
     Mid-level SQLite client library, based on postgresql-simple.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     bytestring >= 0.9,
     containers,
     direct-sqlite >= 2.2 && < 2.3,
-    text >= 0.11.1,
+    text >= 0.11,
     time,
     old-locale >= 1.0.0.0,
     transformers