Re: Adding binary to the Haskell Platform

marlowsd:

Ok, the way to proceed is to build a set of benchmarks. I did some rough timings myself recently, and found that binary was roughly comparable to the Binary module in GHC, which as far as I know is fairly fast (though I know there are faster libraries out there).

I suspect we're all measuring different things. Would someone like to work on benchmarking binary and identifying the weak points?

I'll benchmark the default instances, and the underlying primitives. Let's see what that shows up. -- Don