Sounds like the endorsement I was looking for :-) On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:18 AM, John Van Enk wrote:

I use Data.Binary to encode/decode all messages/packets in my P2P VPN application (http://code.google.com/p/scurry/). It's been quite fast and has be suitable for all my needs thus far.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM, David Leimbach wrote:

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I see that there are a few approaches to doing Binary I/O with Haskell, and the one I'm currently looking at using is Data.Binary from Hackage. I was just wondering what folks were choosing for building networked applications and doing Binary I/O. The approach I was about to take was to use Data.Binary to create ByteString for Network calls with a standard I/O package. Are there other good options?

Dave

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I think I ran across this and somehow thought this was standard, this is what I was planning to use with Data.Binary :-) Dave 2009/4/24 Krzysztof Skrzętnicki

There is already a network-bytestring package:

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-bytestrin...

Regards

Christopher Skrzętnicki

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 16:20, David Leimbach wrote:

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Sounds like the endorsement I was looking for :-)

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:18 AM, John Van Enk wrote:

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I use Data.Binary to encode/decode all messages/packets in my P2P VPN application (http://code.google.com/p/scurry/). It's been quite fast and has be suitable for all my needs thus far.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:15 AM, David Leimbach wrote:

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I see that there are a few approaches to doing Binary I/O with Haskell, and the one I'm currently looking at using is Data.Binary from Hackage. I was just wondering what folks were choosing for building networked applications and doing Binary I/O. The approach I was about to take was to use Data.Binary to create ByteString for Network calls with a standard I/O package. Are there other good options?

Dave

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:40, Edward Kmett wrote:

The only caveat I would mention about using Data.Binary is that it traverses lists twice to encode them. Once to determine the length and once to output the list. As a result you may see space-leak-like behavior when encoding very long lists with Data.Binary.

The same holds for reading back a very long list. It forces the list spine before you can get at any elements. Denis