Re: [Corelinux-develop] Persistent thoughts

[Christophe Prud'h. <pru...@MI...>]

On Saturday 13 January 2001 20:01, you wrote:
> Pun intended :)
>
> Anyway, my initial thoughts (from real world experience) is to avoid th=
e
> stream operator persistence protocol.
what is this ?
is it just the << op used to store the relevant data?

>
> In other words, real world systems don't store data in blobs. While it
> may be easy for the application developer, it results in poor
> performance, poor scalability, and a nightmare when the data store
> exceeds some physical limitation.
yes and no.
In my case, the data is few big, very big blobs which are scattered over=20
filesystems using parallel virtual filesystems.


>
> Furthermore, classes aren't modeled in single monoliths, and the
> persistent framework should reflect that object oriented applications
> are hierarchical by and far, shouldn't the data be as well?
yes.
I personnally deal with persistence using very specific solutions for my=20
domain (scientific computing) and they are not really -- I think --=20
applicable to real world applications.

On this topic I agree with you
Am I wrong if I say that XML seem to be a language of choice to store dat=
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for object ? It seems that it is heavily used these days as the language =
of=20
choice for configuration files and persistence.=20

my 2 cents
C.
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