On Friday 22 Apr 2005 9:48 pm, libraries-request@haskell.org wrote:

Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:30:27 -0700 From: "David Brown" Subject: Re: Binary IO To: "Peter Simons" , libraries@haskell.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:09:27 -0700, Peter Simons wrote:

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And hGet/PutWord8 are fast enough for most situations.

I haven't been following the discussion closely but I am just about to make a big release of the crypto library and I have been using "Hal Daume III's NewBinary now ghc6ized, cabalized, debianize, darcsized." available at http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/NewBinary. Specifically I use:

import qualified NewBinary.Binary as B (BinHandle, getBits, getByte) I hadn't see anything about getBits but would make a plea for its inclusion in any Binary IO package.

I seem to run into this kind of thing a lot with Haskell. Dominic's ASN library is useful to me, however I'm finding I'll probably just have to use it as a template for new code. It works fine for what designed for, parsing keys and such, but I'm looking to use it to represent gigabytes of data. Processing data like that one Word8 at a time isn't practical.

For information, the most significant change in the crypto library (as well darcsizing, cabalizing and restructuring it to fit the agreement reached on this list - http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-January/002856.html) is the ASN.1 handling. If that is going to cause anyone problems, please let me know I will see what can be done. Dominic.