std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-08-14 11:15, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:

> Well, std.xml needs to be replaced anyway, so it's probably not a good
> limitation to have. It may take some work to replace it correctly though...

No, but should std.serialization be on hold until std.xml is replaced?

> I'm mostly interested in reducing memory. If I'm (de)serializing a large
> object or lots of objects, this could become an issue.
>
> Related question: Have you looked at how much this relies on the GC?

I haven't done any measurements. It will use the GC to deserialize 
values that are normally heap allocated, that is: arrays, associative 
arrays, objects, strings and so on. In addition to that, a pointer to 
each deserialized value is stored in an associative array.

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/Jacob Carlborg