On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall@gmail.com> wrote:

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Could you make the slides available in some other format than Flash?

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I second that.

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> - 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

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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.

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> - 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.

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> - 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?

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Again, no magic.� One would hope an interface object that became detached from it's service would know how to reattach.

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ttfn, Steve
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