On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Philippe Marschall < philippe.marschall@gmail.com> wrote:
Could you make the slides available in some other format than Flash?
I second that. ...
- Fast pickle format. It is much faster to materialize than to serialize.
What has led to the conclusion that materialization is more important than serialization? I
I don't think Martin made a claim about importance, just current implementation behavior. One horse will be faster than another. Currently, the materialization horse is faster than the serialization horse.
- Correctly support class reshape (when the class of serialized objects has changed).
So what do you do when an instance variable was added? Set it to nil and hope that everything will continue to work?
Of course. One might hope that the developer that added an instance variable to a system which had existing instanciated objects would provide suitable lazy initialization as needed. There is no magic.
- Serialize ANY kind of object. For the moment there is no object to our knowledge that we cannot serialize and materialize.
Really? You serialize Socket, Process, FileStream and something meaningful happens?
Again, no magic. One would hope an interface object that became detached from it's service would know how to reattach. ttfn, Steve -- Steve Cline cline@acm.org http://www.clines.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevecline "Do what's right, and try to get along with people, in that order" - Ezra Taft Benson