Adding binary to the Haskell Platform

[Don Stewart]

marlowsd:
> Ok, the way to proceed is to build a set of benchmarks.  I did some  
> rough timings myself recently, and found that binary was roughly  
> comparable to the Binary module in GHC, which as far as I know is fairly  
> fast (though I know there are faster libraries out there).
>
> I suspect we're all measuring different things.  Would someone like to  
> work on benchmarking binary and identifying the weak points?

I'll benchmark the default instances, and the underlying primitives.
Let's see what that shows up.

-- Don