flat

Principled and efficient bit-oriented binary serialization.

BSD-3-Clause licensed by Pasqualino `Titto` Assini

Maintained by [email protected]

This version can be pinned in stack with:flat-0.4.4@sha256:c6dde9f15935db97660012a196fd023c1800f9e62848af6c8116883cada33bb9,8810

Depends on 15 packages(full list with versions):

Haskell implementation of Flat, a principled, language-independent and efficient binary data format.

Briefly:

Transfer time (serialisation time + transport time on the network + deserialisation at the receiving end): flat is usually faster for all but the highest network speeds
Size: flat produces significantly smaller binaries than all other libraries (3/4 times usually)
Serialization: store, persist and flat are faster
Deserialization: store, flat, persist and cereal are faster

Get the latest stable version from hackage.

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.

TypeScript-JavaScript and Purescript ports are under development.

Get in touch if you would like to help porting flat to other languages.