Reflections on Serialization APIs in D

[Atila Neves]

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/sctofkitoaxftosxtspw@forum.dlang.org#post-sctofkitoaxftosxtspw:40forum.dlang.org

On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 15:32:30 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> I am curious as to how exactly that would work, does it 
>> determine the
>> output format at compile-time or runtime? Does it specify the 
>> way it's
>> serialized, or it's serialized representation? I'd also be 
>> curious
>> about the performance impact it brings, if any. Depending on 
>> it's
>> exact function it's perfectly possible that it could actually 
>> be
>> faster than my toString/parse combo because mine requires the 
>> string
>> be allocated from toString, due to the lack of knowledge of the
>> underlying format.
>
> I promise to announce and explain it soon. Maybe even today. I 
> just have to fix one small detail.