Type-safe Packed Data in Haskell: A Library Approach

This blog post summarizes a paper to be presented at ECOOP 2025, introducing a Haskell library for type-safe and portable support of packed data. The library uses Template Haskell to generate code for packing, unpacking, and traversing packed data without requiring compiler modifications. Benchmarks show some speed improvements, but also reveal computational overhead from the monadic approach. Future work focuses on generating C code for performance optimization.