[Haskell] ANN: blaze-builder-0.2.0.0

[Antoine Latter]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Simon Meier <simon.meier at inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> The blaze-builder library provides an abstraction of buffered output of byte
> streams and several convenience functions to exploit it. For example, it
> allows to efficiently serialize Haskell values to lazy bytestrings with a
> large average chunk size. The large average chunk size allows to make good
> use of cache prefetching in later processing steps (e.g. compression) and
> reduces the sytem call overhead when writing the resulting lazy bytestring
> to a file or sending it over the network.
> Note that blaze-builder was inspired by the Data.Binary.Builder module
> provided by the binary package. It was originally developed with the
> specific needs of the blaze-html package in mind. Since then it has been
> restructured to serve as a drop-in replacement for Data.Binary.Builder,
> which it improves upon both in speed as well as expressivity.
> See the following blog-post for more details:
> http://lambda-view.blogspot.com/2010/11/blaze-builder-library-faster.html
> best regards,
> Simon Meier

Can the same technique be ported over to the binary package, or is it
somehow interface incompatible?

I'd thought I'd heard rumbles a while back about a desire the change
the implementation of 'binary', but I don't know what happened to
that.

Antoine

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