Help with optimization/profiling
Haskell Community [Unofficial]
April 26, 2026
It’s always binary’s fault it seems:
Help optimizing simple decompressor Learn
> The binary package is known ( store: a new and efficient binary serialization library ) to be much, much slower than what Haskell can do ( serialization/report.md at master · haskell-perf/serialization · GitHub ). Mostly it’s due to allocations which are necessary due to binary’s design. Years ago I once asked the library maintainers to change the statement on the package from “suitable for high performance scenarios” to something more realistic like “a solid reference implementation, but not ef…
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