20 Dec
2006
20 Dec
'06
3:22 a.m.
jo:
Marc A. Ziegert schrieb:
software upgrades: use Read/Show classes instead of Foreign.Marshal,
I'm having second thoughts here. Wouldn't Show evaluate all thunks of the data Shown? That would mean I couldn't use infinite data structures in data that goes out to disk.
Btw, if you're dumping large structures to disk, using Read/Show is a bad idea :) Use NewBinary, at a minimum, or one of the other serialisation modules (possibly the one used in HAppS based on bytestrings) would be a better option. Read/Show is good for testing that the serialising code works, though. -- Don