From: "Carlos J. Hernandez" <carlosjhr64@...>
Date: 2008-01-09T04:01:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal Pipe

Ara:

Yaml is find over internet connection where transmission time is high
compared to cpu time, and
where human readability is a plus.
For my case, separate programs/processes on the same machine working
very closely
as if a single program in a pipe architecture... Marshal is better.
In fact, if Marshal is a bit of a Hybrid (don't know the details), then
what I really want is pure binary, I think.

Anyways, for a bit more details of my implementation,
taking out the specifics of my application and including Roberts'
comments,
I now have:

class MarshalPipe
  def self.puts(data)
    Marshal.dump( data, $stdout )
  end

  def _pipe
    data = nil
    while data = Marshal.load($stdin) do
      pipe(data)
      break if $stdin.eof?
    end
  end
end

I don't know why this did not work:

  until $stdin.eof do
    data = Marshal.load($stdin)
    pipe( data )
  end