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in reply to Re^8: Storable- long integer size
in thread Storable- long integer size
I've got the feeling that the particular type of problem demonstrated by my example should be fixable without impacting significantly on performance.
But perhaps I haven't grasped the importance of the longsize check, and a "feeling" isn't a very convincing argument ...
All of your points are good ones.
Cheers,
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Re^10: Storable- long integer size
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 23, 2015 at 09:48 UTC
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I've got the feeling that the particular type of problem demonstrated by my example should be fixable without impacting significantly on performance.
It would; but to what end?
It would very slightly relax the conditions under which Storable could successfully be used as a file interchange format: if both source and destination are: 64-bit; and little-endian; and use the same floating point format; and are using ASCII or utf-8 (eg. not Win-1252) as the internal format for strings; and ...) then you might get away with using binary Storable files as an interchange format.
But would that slight "improvement" as an interchange format be a good thing?
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