From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T07:13:59+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML vs. Marshal

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 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...

wouldn't that be soap?  ;-)  i hate xml, but this would be wheel reinvention
for sure...

-a
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