[Haskell-beginners] "reusable" data in Haskell

[John Velman]

Thanks, Stephen.  Looks like this is pretty much what I'm looking for.

Best,

John V.

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:42:11AM +0000, Stephen Tetley wrote:
> Hello John
> 
> Data-Binary is the commonly used serialization library, it could well
> be adequate for your purposes:
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary
> 
> >From the blurb:
>   "Serialisation speeds of over 1 G/sec have been observed, so this
> library should be suitable for high performance scenarios."
> 
> It really depends how you choose to represent the database, if you
> have cycles serialization could be tricky, but if you just have atoms
> of strings for the predicates and facts it should be fine(*).
> 
> 
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Stephen
> 
> (*) Converting to and from Strings and ByteStrings will take _some_
> time in the serialization layer, but it would take some time from a
> real database or other format.