From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T06:24:11+09:00
Subject: Re: writing objects to files

F. Senault wrote:
> 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.
> 

-And- the YAML format is actually an open specification, so you get the 
added value of being able to read the same file in other programming 
languages - I have mild doubts there are parsers for whatever Marshal 
outputs for anything but Ruby.

David Vallner