[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

> lemming:
> > 
> > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >         Binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation for Haskell
> > >      ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > > 
> > > The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce the release of a new,
> > > pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now available
> > > from Hackage:
> > >     
> > >  tarball:    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary/0.2
> > >  darcs:      darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/binary
> > >  haddocks:   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary.html
> > 
> > I want to write out data in the machine's endianess, because that data 
> > will be post-processed by sox, which reads data in the machine's 
> > endianess. Is this also planned for the package?
> 
> The underlying Get and Put monads support explicit endian writes and
> reads, which you can add to your instances explicitly:
> 
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary-Get.html#5
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary-Put.html#5
> 
> So you can do that now. 

Of course, I can check for the machine's endianess, then decide whether to
use putWord16be and putWord16le. But I assume that it is more efficient,
if there would be some function putWord16native, which writes out in the
machine's native endianess.