Help with optimization/profiling

[mchav]

It’s always binary’s fault it seems:

Help optimizing simple decompressor

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…