[Haskell-cafe] why does the binary library require so much memory?

[Don Stewart]

jeremy:
> At Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:49:03 -0700,
> Don Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > Why don't you use your own instance to serialize IxSet lazily (or
> > however you would like?)
> > 
> > There's no reason to be constrained to use the [a] instance.
> 
> Well, the Set instance might actually be a better choice. But the Set
> instance in Binary uses [a] anyway :) Plus, happstack applications do
> also use Set and List in addition to IxSet.
> 
> Is this issue with list fixable? If list can't be fixed, then perhaps
> Set and IxSet can't be fixed for the same reason. But, I don't really
> understand the reason yet.

Oh, it is entirely possible to use a different instance, that has
different semantics for lists.  You want  to write  the list
incrementally?

-- Don