[Haskell-cafe] Re: Alternative to Data.Binary

[ChrisK]

Grzegorz Chrupala wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there a serialization library other than the Data.Binary from hackage?

Yes.  "binary-strict" is one alternative:

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary-strict




> 
> I am using Data.Binary in a couple of projects, but I have found its stack
> and memory usage very hard to control. Its very common that decoding a map
> or list of non-trivial size uses up all available RAM, or causes a stack
> overflow.
> 
> I don't care that much about it being extremely fast, I just want to stop
> worrying that if I try to read a file a few percent larger than the last
> time, my program will suddenly stop working.
> 
> Best,
> --
> Grzegorz
>