Hi James, 2012/5/9 James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>: > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: >>> Is there such a thing as short-term serialization? >> >> Yes, of course, and this what many people need. This is what James >> called marshalling/unmarshalling. This is a standard way to communicate >> between some applications that share a common basis. Of course [math] is >> not a distributed computing environment, but it should not prevent >> people from being used in a distributed environment. >> > > For long-term serialization needs, I would suggest instead that we > introduce (perhaps it's there already, I'm not familiar with the > entire codebase) exporters/importers which support some > industry-standard file format(s) (such as those used by R for > example). Now, I would only suggest we introduce these where it makes > sense, such as for larger data structures like matrices. For > something with a few fields, not so much. > Setting aside the discussion on serialization, this would probably be a nice extension. The problem is to find a good (as in "widely used") standard. Do you think the file formats used by R are good candidates (meaning: used outside the R community)? Are these file format indeed standardized, with precise specifications? I've heard about HDF as well, but I have not investigated. Sébastien
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