Improve performance of binary serialisation for interface files
utils/Binary.hs can be made significantly faster. See:
http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2006-April/010037.html
Until we have a standard highly-tuned binary I/O library, I think applying some optimisations to GHC's private binary library will be worthwhile.
The first thing to do is replace IORef (IOUArray Int Word8) with a fast mutable pointer, backed by either a ForeignPtr or a MutableByteArr#.
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