From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T06:47:46+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML vs. Marshal

Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> 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 :)

I guess _why's suggestion is to make it possible for the drb protocol to 
talk between languages, if someone wanted to develop DRb for Python or 
Perl. But that does raise a lot of questions...