persist

Minimal binary serialization library with focus on performance

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Programming language: Haskell

License: BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

Tags: Data     Parsing    

README

Minimal binary serialization library with focus on performance

persist is a reasonably fast binary serialization library operating on strict ByteStrings with small dependency footprint. The binary format uses the little endian representation on both big- and little endian machines. The API design is mostly compatible with the cereal library. However the binary format is not compatible with binary and cereal. Its internal machinery for deserialization is based on the store library. Serialization generates ByteStrings directly instead of relying on the ByteString Builder.

Comparison with other libraries

• flat - bit packing (!), fast, longer compile times
• store - faster serialization, machine dependent, larger library, many dependencies
• cereal - similar to persist, slower
• binary - lazy and slower than persist

Benchmarks

Benchmarks are available at https://github.com/haskell-perf/serialization. The following serialization and deserialization results were measured on GHC 8.6.2. Results that are within 30% of the best result are displayed in bold.

deserialization (time)/BinTree Direction (best first)

package	performance
persist	1.0
store	1.1
flat	1.2
cereal	4.3
serialise	6.1
binary	7.8
packman	13.5

deserialization (time)/BinTree Int (best first)

package	performance
store	1.0
persist	1.1
cereal	1.3
flat	1.3
serialise	4.1
binary	4.8
packman	15.0

deserialization (time)/Cars (best first)

package	performance
persist	1.0
store	1.1
flat	1.3
cereal	2.9
packman	3.7
serialise	4.8
binary	7.2

deserialization (time)/Iris (best first)

package	performance
store	1.0
persist	1.1
flat	1.2
serialise	2.4
cereal	3.6
packman	3.6
binary	8.5

deserialization (time)/[Direction] (best first)

package	performance
persist	1.0
flat	1.1
store	1.2
cereal	1.3
serialise	3.0
binary	3.1
packman	11.0

serialization (time)/BinTree Direction (best first)

package	performance
store	1.0
persist	1.1
flat	1.4
cereal	8.4
binary	16.0
serialise	22.0
packman	38.4

serialization (time)/BinTree Int (best first)

package	performance
store	1.0
flat	1.0
persist	1.7
cereal	14.1
binary	18.7
serialise	20.6
packman	54.4

serialization (time)/Cars (best first)

package	performance
store	1.0
flat	2.1
persist	3.6
cereal	5.7
binary	11.2
serialise	13.7
packman	15.6

serialization (time)/Iris (best first)

package	performance
store	1.0
flat	5.0
persist	6.4
serialise	12.5
cereal	15.0
packman	36.0
binary	80.0

serialization (time)/[Direction] (best first)

package	performance
store	1.0
persist	1.1
flat	1.4
cereal	3.8
binary	5.2
serialise	7.8
packman	45.0