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binary-typed

Version 0.2.1.0 revision 1 uploaded by HerbertValerioRiedel.

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Synopsis
Type-safe binary serialization
Description

Binary serialization tagged with type information, allowing for typechecking and useful error messages at the receiving site.

This package serves the same purpose as tagged-binary, with a couple of key differences:

  • Support of different kinds of serialized type annotations, each with specific strengths and weaknesses.

  • Error messages can provide details on type errors at the cost of longer message lengths to include the necessary information.

  • Serialization computationally almost as efficient as Data.Binary when sharing type representations; decoding however is slower. These values obviously depend a lot on the involved data and its type; an example benchmark is shown in the picture below.

  • No depencency on Internal modules of other libraries, and a very small dependency footprint in general.

For information about usage, see the Data.Binary.Typed.Tutorial module.

Performance-wise, here is a value Right (Left <100 chars lipsum>) of type Either (Char, Int) (Either String (Maybe Integer)) benchmarked using the Hashed64 type representation:

(local copy)

Author
David Luposchainsky
Bug reports
https://github.com/quchen/binary-typed/issues
Category
Data, Serialization
Copyright
David Luposchainsky
Homepage
https://github.com/quchen/binary-typed
Maintainer
dluposchainsky on googles email service
Package URL
n/a
Stability
n/a

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