Sure it would be a good thing, of course keeping the most frequent use case as simple as possibile. Also remember that one of the things that allows DirectMemory to perform well is protostuff - that is an efficient and unobtrusive way to work around serialization.
Ciao, R Il giorno 15/dic/2011 13:56, "Tommaso Teofili" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Hi all, > > while working on one of the examples I found myself wondering why keys in > Cache have to be Strings. > Generally a cache should also be able to use objects of whatever nature as > keys, so we could use the same serialization mechanism used for values or, > at least, define keys to be implementing the java.io.Serializable > interface. > What do you think? > > Tommaso >
