Phil Trinder asked:
> Do any Haskell implementations support Binary files?
At York we have a version of nhc13 which supports, amongst other things,
binary file I/O. We hope to release it to the world fairly soon.
We have confirmed that binary files enable a faster data transfer rate
than the textual parsing of ordinary files, as well as delivering
considerable space savings. As with ordinary files, our implementation
allows only data to be stored - functional values are somewhat tricky.
Also, it is easy to lose sharing in the data structure when it is
converted to the binary format - however we now have a means of
avoiding that loss.
More details will be available soon.
Malcolm
