Re: [q-lang-users] Smash version 0.2

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Peter Minten wrote:
> I've uploaded a new version of the serialization lib Smash. The 
> converter from and to a binary representation was rewritten in C. This 
> gives a pretty extreme speed improvement for large expressions (like a 
> relatively simple test expression put in a list 100 times). On the other 
> hand for smaller expressions the old implementation is pretty fast too.

Hi, Peter,

thanks a lot for updating your package, works very well indeed. Do you 
have plans to update json-q for Q 6.2 as well?

I think I will put the smash and bqd modules into a single module and 
add that to the core package. For the time being, I added a pointer to 
http://q-lang.sf.net/examples.html. Do you also have a personal homepage 
that I could link to?

Tim, so there you have your binary marshalling module. Now you just need 
to write the pvm interface. ;-)

> A word of warning: I'm not sure if it works well with 64 bits systems 
> (it could be that something serialized on a 64 bits system can't be 
> deserialized on a 32 system). But as Q doesn't have 64 bits support yet 
> that's not likely to cause major problems at the moment :-).

Well, we just got a new 64 bit machine, so I'm probably going to get 
serious about the 64 bit port real soon now(TM) ...

Cheers,
Albert

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