Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-09 Thread Don Stewart
ketil: Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main thing is porting to ghc 6.8 -- which means the new (*faster*) lazy bytestring representation, and the smp parallel quickcheck driver for the testsuite (it'll use N cores, watch the jobs migrate around). Binary 0.4 seems to require

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ketil: Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main thing is porting to ghc 6.8 -- which means the new (*faster*) lazy bytestring representation, and the smp parallel quickcheck driver for the testsuite (it'll use

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-09 Thread Don Stewart
duncan.coutts: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ketil: Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main thing is porting to ghc 6.8 -- which means the new (*faster*) lazy bytestring representation, and the smp parallel quickcheck driver for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-08 Thread Tim Docker
don: The main thing is porting to ghc 6.8 -- which means the new (*faster*) lazy bytestring representation, and the smp parallel quickcheck driver for the testsuite (it'll use N cores, watch the jobs migrate around). Great news... Thanks for the collective work on this. I'm looking forward to

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-06 Thread Don Stewart
Binary: high performance, pure binary encoding, decoding and serialisation for Haskell -- The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce release 0.4 of Data.Binary, the pure, efficient binary serialisation library for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-06 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On 10/6/07, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce release 0.4 of Data.Binary, the pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now available from Hackage: May I ask what are the changes? I didn't find some sort of changelog anywhere.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote: *Very* high performance can be expected, with throughput over 1G/sec observed in practice (good enough for most networking scenarios, we suspect). Um... I wasn't aware that there was any harddrive or networking technology that goes this fast? Anyway, I'll have to take

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-06 Thread Don Stewart
agl: On 10/6/07, Felipe Almeida Lessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I ask what are the changes? I didn't find some sort of changelog anywhere. There's the darcs changes list. The descriptions there in are .. terse :) But here's a selection: * Add getLazyByteStringNul. -- | Get a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:16:37PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: Don Stewart wrote: *Very* high performance can be expected, with throughput over 1G/sec observed in practice (good enough for most networking scenarios, we suspect). Um... I wasn't aware that there was any harddrive or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-06 Thread Don Stewart
andrewcoppin: Don Stewart wrote: *Very* high performance can be expected, with throughput over 1G/sec observed in practice (good enough for most networking scenarios, we suspect). Um... I wasn't aware that there was any harddrive or networking technology that goes this fast? My bus

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

2007-10-06 Thread Don Stewart
felipe.lessa: On 10/6/07, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce release 0.4 of Data.Binary, the pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now available from Hackage: May I ask what are the changes? I didn't find some sort of