Orange 1.0.0 beta - serialization library

[simendsjo]

On 20.08.2011 19:45, dsimcha wrote:
> On 8/20/2011 12:50 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> Masahiro Nakagawa seems to be working on msgpack:
>> https://bitbucket.org/repeatedly/msgpack4d/
>
> Yeah, this does look quite useful. I tried it a few weeks ago and ran
> into a couple showstopper bugs. I filed them and he fixed them, but I
> never got around to trying it again.
>
> I actually think that since both are very commonly needed things and
> satisfy completely different niches, Orange and msgpack4d might both
> eventually have a rightful place in Phobos. Orange would be recommended
> when portability and serializing as many types as possible are
> important, and msgpack4d would be recommended when speed and space
> efficiency are the primary concerns.
>
>>
>> Is RIFF considered a good format? I've ran into it when porting C
>> code, it seems it's also used by Google and probably other companies.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format
>
>  From reading the Wikipedia article (I knew nothing about RIFF before
> this discussion) it sounds like it's in a valley in between two utility
> peaks. XML provides maximum portability. msgpack provides maximum
> efficiency. RIFF doesn't really provide either all that well.

Agreed. I've worked a lot with RIFF in the past, and it only specifies a 
high level structure by having sections with a known size. It doesn't 
give much over a plain binary file.