Thanks, Stephen. Looks like this is pretty much what I'm looking for. Best, John V. On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:42:11AM +0000, Stephen Tetley wrote:
Hello John
Data-Binary is the commonly used serialization library, it could well be adequate for your purposes:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary
From the blurb: "Serialisation speeds of over 1 G/sec have been observed, so this library should be suitable for high performance scenarios."
It really depends how you choose to represent the database, if you have cycles serialization could be tricky, but if you just have atoms of strings for the predicates and facts it should be fine(*).
Best wishes
Stephen
(*) Converting to and from Strings and ByteStrings will take _some_ time in the serialization layer, but it would take some time from a real database or other format.