From: George Moschovitis <gm@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T17:33:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Use yaml to store Ruby arrays or hashes in the DB?

trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> On Monday 01 November 2004 10:20 pm, James Britt wrote:
> | George Moschovitis wrote:
> | > Hello everybody,
> | >
> | > the current version of NDB stores Array/Hash/GeneralRubyObjects using
> | > the Marshal.dump/load methods. This is relatively fast but not portable.
> | > Ie it is difficult to use the database from an application coded in
> | > another language due to Marshal being Ruby specific.
> | >
> | > I could use yaml of course but I am wondering if this is fast enough.
> |
> | How can you store Ruby-specific objects (i.e., custom, user-defined
> | classes) in a language-neutral way?
> 
> You use YAML. 

yeap the latest version uses YAML instead of Marshal. Havent run any
benchmarks yet.

-g.

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