30 Jan
2008
30 Jan
'08
8:17 a.m.
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 14:09:31 you wrote:
This sounds good, but don't I throw away all (possible) performance gains of transmitting ByteStrings directly when using show/read to convert them to ordinary strings and back?
Probably not all of them, but some of them, definitely.
If you want to transmit an arbitrary bytestring then I'm pretty sure that transmitting a length word first is the way to go. An arbitrary bytestring can have any value in it, so there are no values left to act as delimiters :) You'd have to have some kind of escaping mechanism, like show, which is expensive.
Okay, then I will go this way. Thank you very much! Timo