Duncan Coutts
FWIW, I've used Data.Binary extensively and have found it a joy to work with. I've used it to serialize/deserialize ethernet packets in real time for a VPN implementation and have never had a problem. It's quite fast and robust.
Is that code available? We could do with something serious for benchmarking the binary package, especially if we go for any major re-engineering.
I'm using Data.Binary in the bioinformatics library to encode/decode SFF files. These contain gene sequences produced with the new pyrosequencing technology from Roche/454, have sizes (with the latest incarnation of the sequencing) of about 1-2GB. Plenty of test data at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=sra A program using the library is described here: http://blog.malde.org/index.php/flower/ All available with (L)GPL licenses. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants