Adding binary to the Haskell Platform

[Krasimir Angelov]

The stricter version of Data.Binary is here:

http://code.haskell.org/gf/src/Data

It avoids the stack overflow and *might* be faster.


On 8/5/09, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Let's discuss, then have the steering committee recommend yay/nay.
> >
>
> We should have _some_ kind of binary library in the Platform, but I don't
> know whether the proposed library is the right one.
>
> In a recent application, I found Data.Binary very slow, both to encode and
> to decode data.  Decoding had stack-overflows, and when I increased the
> stack, it took about 20mins to read in an 8Mb file.  When I then turned on
> optimisation with -O, the performance improved considerably (down to ~30secs
> to read the same file).  This was using the standard instances of Binary for
> data structures like Data.Map.  30secs was still too slow, so we ended up
> needing to write our own improved instance for Data.Map.  (Timings were
> similar with both ghc-6.8.3 and ghc-6.10.3.)
>
> Regards,
>    Malcolm
>
>
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