On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 22:53 -0400, Lisa Seelye wrote: > <quote who="Ask Bjørn Hansen"> > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > What's the performance of JSON serialization in $your_language? > > Benchmarks for the JSON Ruby gem can be found at > http://json.rubyforge.org/svn/tags/v1_1_2/benchmarks/benchmark.txt. I > > > I apologize if it's been discussed before, but how about standardizing > > on using JSON for serialization? In Perl it's Really Fast (with JSON::XS) > > and I imagine that it gzip's well, too. > > > > It would make using complex data structures between languages as > > trivial as it can be... > > I don't think it's memcached's place to care about what is stored in it. > Unless I've missed something; I haven't read the list in a while.
Generally speaking, it is not memcached's business what is stored, but for cross-platform data sharing, this has come up so often that it makes sense to have a uniform baseline of functionality which developers can expect to be present; those who want to do something different are certainly more than welcome to do so! Aaron
