4 files changed, 45 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 8797578..d8a9e0e 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -73,5 +73,6 @@ and all the people in the Haskell mailing lists for their help.
 - Max Suica simplified the installation on Windows and improved the instructions.
 
 - Vivian McPhail fixed configure.hs to allow non-root user installation in
-  case that /tmp is not writable.
+  case that /tmp is not writable. He also contributed Binary instances for
+  Vector and Matrix.
 
diff --git a/hmatrix.cabal b/hmatrix.cabal
index cbf4a55..e7a64c8 100644
--- a/hmatrix.cabal
+++ b/hmatrix.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:               hmatrix
-Version:            0.9.3.0
+Version:            0.10.0.0
 License:            GPL
 License-file:       LICENSE
 Author:             Alberto Ruiz
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ library
     Build-Depends:      base >= 4 && < 5,
                         array,
                         storable-complex,
-                        process
+                        process,
+                        ghc-binary
 
     Extensions:         ForeignFunctionInterface,
                         CPP
diff --git a/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs b/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs
index 3147e13..0c21b97 100644
--- a/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs
+++ b/lib/Data/Packed/Matrix.hs
@@ -44,6 +44,27 @@ import Text.Printf(printf)
 import Data.List(transpose,intersperse)
 import Data.Complex
 
+import Data.Binary
+import Foreign.Storable
+import Control.Monad(replicateM)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+instance (Binary a, Element a, Storable a) => Binary (Matrix a) where
+    put m = do
+            let r = rows m
+            let c = cols m
+            put r
+            put c
+            mapM_ (\i -> mapM_ (\j -> put $ m @@> (i,j)) [0..(c-1)]) [0..(r-1)]
+    get = do
+          r <- get
+          c <- get
+          xs <- replicateM r $ replicateM c get
+          return $ fromLists xs
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 -- | creates a matrix from a vertical list of matrices
 joinVert :: Element t => [Matrix t] -> Matrix t
 joinVert ms = case common cols ms of
diff --git a/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs b/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs
index 472240c..f6b3fc6 100644
--- a/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs
+++ b/lib/Data/Packed/Vector.hs
@@ -29,6 +29,25 @@ import Data.Packed.Internal
 import Numeric.GSL.Vector
 -- import Data.Packed.ST
 
+import Data.Binary
+import Foreign.Storable
+import Control.Monad(replicateM)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+instance (Binary a, Storable a) => Binary (Vector a) where
+    put v = do
+            let d = dim v
+            put d
+            mapM_ (\i -> put $ v @> i) [0..(d-1)]
+    get = do
+          d <- get
+          xs <- replicateM d get
+          return $ fromList xs
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
 {- | Creates a real vector containing a range of values:
 
 @\> linspace 5 (-3,7)