From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T06:43:56+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML vs. Marshal

On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 3:35:08 AM, why wrote:

> Why not provide a wire format that is more efficient than YAML and keep
> its portability?  My big use case is this:  I love DRb.  I want it to
> work across languages.  I guess you could do this with plain YAML.  But
> we don't really need YAML's readability.  And we could use the 
> efficiency a bit.


Doesn't DRb use Marshal, and isn't Marshal faster than YAML?  Won't
YAML bytecode be no faster than Marshal?  Isn't Marshal suitably
cross-platform?

No flame intended, but you got a lot of questions to answer :)

Gavin