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ezyang / compact

Compact regions library for Haskell
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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How to use this for serialization #10

Closed chrisdone closed 5 years ago

chrisdone commented 5 years ago

I started a thread on ghc-devs, but it's relevant here to the authors too:

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-December/016685.html

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-December/016686.html

If I can figure out a way to adhere to the requirements specified by the Data.Compact.Serialize module, I'll open a PR with documentation or an example Dockerfile on how to do it.

I think this serialization could be used for network transfer, distributed computing, caching, etc. with only a copy overhead and no actual serialization overhead. But if it's impractical I can cross it off my list.

ezyang commented 5 years ago

Cross-posting my response: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2019-January/016803.html

chrisdone commented 5 years ago

Thanks!