[haskell-platform] #86: Proposal: Add Package: binary

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#86: Proposal: Add Package: binary
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 Reporter:  dons              |        Owner:  dons    
     Type:  defect            |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  major             |    Milestone:  2009.4.0
Component:  Package Addition  |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:                    |  
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Comment (by maeder):

 For us `Data.Binary` wasn't useful at all, because it does not consider
 sharing. The created files have been 25 times bigger and consumed too much
 memory when read back.
 The initial sentence of http://hackage.haskell.org/package/RefSerialize
 are absolutely true, but I did not test this package.

 I've put parts of our code in cabal packages:
 http://www.informatik.uni-
 bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets/src-
 distribution/versions/aterm-0.1.0.0.tar.gz
 http://www.informatik.uni-
 bremen.de/agbkb/forschung/formal_methods/CoFI/hets/src-
 distribution/versions/hets-drift-0.1.0.0.tar.gz

 Ideal would be a binary format that considers sharing (and does not need
 to be further compressed)

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