flat: Principled and efficient bit-oriented binary serialization.
Reference implementation of flat, a principled and efficient binary serialization format.
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.2, 0.2.2, 0.3, 0.3.2, 0.3.4, 0.4, 0.4.2, 0.4.4, 0.5, 0.5.2, 0.6 |
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| Change log | CHANGELOG |
| Dependencies | array (>=0.5.1.0), base, bytestring (>=0.10.6), containers, deepseq (>=1.4), dlist, filepath (==1.4.1.1), ghc-prim, hashable, HUnit (==1.6.0.0), memory (>=0.14.10 && <=0.14.14), mono-traversable, pretty (>=1.1.2), primitive, QuickCheck (==2.10), semigroups, tasty (==1.1.0.3), text, unordered-containers, vector [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==7.10.3 || ==8.0.2 || ==8.2.2 || ==8.4.4 || ==8.6.5 || ==8.8.3 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | Copyright: (c) 2016-2020 Pasqualino `Titto` Assini |
| Author | Pasqualino `Titto` Assini |
| Maintainer | tittoassini@gmail.com |
| Revised | Revision 1 made by phadej at 2021-10-18T06:36:21Z |
| Category | Data, Parsing, Serialization |
| Home page | http://quid2.org |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/Quid2/flat |
| Uploaded | by PasqualinoAssini at 2020-05-24T22:31:13Z |
| Distributions | LTSHaskell:0.6, NixOS:0.6, Stackage:0.6 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 5 direct, 1 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 8703 total (12 in the last 30 days) |
| Rating | 2.25 (votes: 2) [estimated by Bayesian average] |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2020-05-24 [all 1 reports] |
Readme for flat-0.4.4
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Haskell implementation of Flat, a principled, language-independent and efficient binary data format.
Performance
For some hard data, see this comparison of the major haskell serialisation libraries.
Briefly:
- Transfer time (serialisation time + transport time on the network + deserialisation at the receiving end):
flatis usually faster for all but the highest network speeds - Size:
flatproduces significantly smaller binaries than all other libraries (3/4 times usually) - Serialization:
store,persistandflatare faster - Deserialization:
store,flat,persistandcerealare faster
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Installation
Get the latest stable version from hackage.
Other Stuff You Might Like
ZM - Language independent, reproducible, absolute types
To decode flat encoded data you need to know the type of the serialised data.
This is ok for applications that do not require long-term storage and that do not operate in open distributed systems.
For those who do, you might want to supplement flat with something like ZM.
Ports for other languages
TypeScript-JavaScript and Purescript ports are under development.
Get in touch if you would like to help porting flat to other languages.