On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Simon Meier <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
