On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:08 -0400, John Van Enk wrote:
I'm trying to implement the protocol, so that I can implement other things on top of that.
I'm also trying to figure out how bad/good Haskell Binary IO really is that it's been addressed a few times differently :-)
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. If it's not available publicly perhaps you might share it privately. Don and I have discussed a few times writing a paper on the design and implementation of a binary library. Duncan