On 2013-05-29 00:32, Dan Leslie wrote: > [...] > I wonder if this would be useful for storing data in a posix shared > memory block... > [...]
Hello Dan, that is certainly possible, you would just combine serialize and call-with-output-string to obtain data you can copy into a shared buffer and call-with-input-string plus deserialize to extract the stored value on the receiving side. However, shared memory between processes or threads on the same machine has the advantage that one can place data in native formats in there without having to care about endianness issues etc. So perhaps object-evict and friends would be more efficient in this case. The protobuf serialization could be quite useful for distributed computing applications. Combining serialization of thunks with network transport and some cryptographic authentication scheme yields you could quickly construct a secure remote compute job submission server or a distributed map reduce network, for example. Ciao, Thomas -- When C++ is your hammer, every problem looks like your thumb. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
