lemming: > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > > lemming: > > > > > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Binary: high performance, pure binary serialisation for Haskell > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > The Binary Strike Team is pleased to announce the release of a new, > > > > pure, efficient binary serialisation library for Haskell, now available > > > > from Hackage: > > > > > > > > tarball: > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/binary/0.2 > > > > darcs: darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/binary > > > > haddocks: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary.html > > > > > > I want to write out data in the machine's endianess, because that data > > > will be post-processed by sox, which reads data in the machine's > > > endianess. Is this also planned for the package? > > > > The underlying Get and Put monads support explicit endian writes and > > reads, which you can add to your instances explicitly: > > > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary-Get.html#5 > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary/Data-Binary-Put.html#5 > > > > So you can do that now. > > Of course, I can check for the machine's endianess, then decide whether to > use putWord16be and putWord16le. But I assume that it is more efficient, > if there would be some function putWord16native, which writes out in the > machine's native endianess.
Ah yes, I actually did have the putWord*native in the code at one point, in my branch for doing aligned-only writes. The speed up wasn't signficant so I didn't commit it, but the host-order primitives are useful, so will appear in the next version of the library. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe