Pickling

[John Meacham]

I also have done some work on a set of classes which will let you read
in and write out XDR encoded data, (as is used in NFS and other rpc
protocols) in a hopefully efficient manner. I am working on figuring out
how to modify DrIFT to auto-derive instances of it. the near-term goal
is an nfs server written in haskell (for a virtual filesystem) as well
as an efficient on-disk format for data.
	Another side effect of this work is that the code also
generates a unique hash which is only dependant on the type of the
encoded data, the idea being that I can tag the beginning of on-disk
data with it and have some degree of insured type-safety.
	John

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:22:01AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2001, Ketil Malde wrote:
> (snip)
> > Can you use Read and Show?  I mean, not ideal for all purposes, but
> > very standard.
> (snip)
> 
> I figured it would be quite a waste having the computer convert the data
> to human-readable form and then parsing it again when a human's not going
> to be reading the intervening datastream. Even just converting the numbers
> to ASCII and back takes time when there's quite a few of them.
> 
> (snip)
> > Well, 'efficiently' is a problem. :-)
> 
> Apparently so! (-: Thanks anyway.
> 
> Of course, I can get by with an inefficient version where I have to write
> some pickling and unpickling code for lots of my types, until something
> better shows up! I assume it will someday.
> 
> -- Mark
> 
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