Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reporting a problem with binary-0.5

Alexey Khudyakov writes:

This issue was discussed on the list before. Get monad definition was changed in binary 0.5.0.2. It was made strict and evaluation of result of runGet is forced. This increased performance but broke programs which relies on lazyness to work.

I just found a more detailed writeup by dons on http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/data-binary-performance-improvments-... -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants