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

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 1 02:47:36 EST 2007


Hello Duncan,

Thursday, February 1, 2007, 3:39:16 AM, you wrote:

>> > Can anyone see a real serialisation use case that needs a monad for the
>> > serialisation side? I'd thought I had an example, but I was wrong.
>> 
>> my program, FreeArc, has its own compression level on top of
>> serializing - i.e. data serialized sent in 64k blocks to the C
>> compression routine and both serialization and compression are run at
>> the same time using threads

i mean that in real world, programs may need to do something in IO
monad - work with database, network, call C libs



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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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