From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-05-04T06:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML vs. Marshal

Bill Atkins wrote:
> Is there any reason to use Marshal instead of YAML?  Is there anything
> Marshal can do that YAML cannot?

Here's one:

 > Marshal.dump [String, Integer]
#   =>"\004\010[\ac\vStringc\fInteger"
 > YAML.dump [String, Integer]
ArgumentError: can't dump anonymous class Class

However, you can get around that--see [ruby-talk:95432].

Marshal is, in my experience, a bit faster.