Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: binary 0.4: high performance, pure binary parsing and serialisation

agl:

On 10/6/07, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

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May I ask what are the changes? I didn't find some sort of changelog anywhere.

There's the darcs changes list. The descriptions there in are .. terse :)

But here's a selection: * Add getLazyByteStringNul.

-- | Get a lazy ByteString that is terminated with a NUL byte. Fails -- if it reaches the end of input without hitting a NUL. getLazyByteStringNul :: Get L.ByteString

* Fix strictness bug in runGetState that led to runtime errors.

* Port binary to ghc 6.8

* add parallel driver (appears to be a parallel quicktest - which is cool because the tests took quite a while previously).

The main thing is porting to ghc 6.8 -- which means the new (*faster*) lazy bytestring representation, and the smp parallel quickcheck driver for the testsuite (it'll use N cores, watch the jobs migrate around). -- Don