[Haskell-cafe] castIOUArray and hPutArray redux

[Ben]

hi there,

i assume you're asking about benefits with respect to serialization?
other than some performance hacks, probably none.  there was no good
reason for me to use hPutArray and the like, i just saw them in the
API docs and decided to try them out -- and got burned!  Data.Binary
has worked great for me so far.

take care, ben

On 5/2/08, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> midfield:
>
> > hi haskellers,
>  >
>  > have the issues with castIOUArray (and thus hGetArray, hPutArray) in
>  > Data.Array.IO discussed below been resolved?
>  >
>  > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2003-January/thread.html
>  >
>  > here is a (trivial) program which has rather unexpected behavior.
>  > (i'm switching to Data.Binary in the meantime.)
>
>
> Could you clarify what benefit the low level direct array IO has over Data.Binary?
>
>  -- Don (thinking about how to best do IO for a new arrays library)
>