20 Sep
2010
20 Sep
'10
12:31 a.m.
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 20:16, Conrad Parker
Anyway, good work. Does this have any overlap with data-binary-ieee754? There was some recent discussion here about the encoding speed in that package.
I should probably make it more clear that data-binary-ieee754 is for special use cases; for most people, using something like this will be much faster since it doesn't have to poke around the individual bits: putFloat32be :: Float -> Put putFloat32be = putWord32be . unsafeCoerce I needed "real" IEEE754 binary support for round-trip parsing, where (for example) maintaining the particular bit pattern of a NaN is important. For 99% of people, the "unsafe" method will work fine.