[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

[Don Stewart]

andrewcoppin:
> Don Stewart wrote:
> >*Very* high performance can be expected, with throughput over 1G/sec 
> >observed
> >in practice (good enough for most networking scenarios, we suspect).
> >  
> 
> Um... I wasn't aware that there was any harddrive or networking 
> technology that goes this fast?

My bus is that fast. The point to take home is that serialising values
(and possibly parsing stuff off the network) won't be a bottleneck in
your Haskell code, for a while to come.

-- Don