From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2006-08-24T15:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: writing objects to files

Le 24 ao�t 2006 � 04:20, James Edward Gray II a �crit :

> On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Marc Heiler wrote:
> 
>> Let me followup:
>>
>> When to use Marshal, when to use yaml?
>> Does one of the two have a big advantage over the other?
> 
> Marshal is C pretty fast, but it writes binary files that are not  
> human readable.  YAML is plain text, but not as zippy.

And Marshal is not guaranteed to produce files compatible between
different versions of Ruby, while YAML is.

Fred
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