From: Austin Ziegler <Austin.Ziegler@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T22:01:29+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 :)

_why isn't as concerned about cross-platform object portability as much
as cross-language object portability.

-austin
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