Personally, I could never get freeze-thaw to work, whereas Storable has
become central to much of my work because it was straightforward and worked
the first time. It is a also a superset of freeze-thaw, iirc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Zander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Graham Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephen Zander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: All's fair (in) love and the sdk list
> >>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Nathan> This probably argues against FreezeThaw, unless Stephen's
> Nathan> extralistual probings turn up evidence to the contrary.
>
> To wit:
>
> >>>>> "Damian" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > There is some debate within the perl-sdk list about the value of
> > FreezeThaw when Storable is available, so I'd like someone one
> > with your knowledge for an unbiased opinion.
>
> Damian> If I had to choose between them, I'd choose FreezeThaw:
> Damian> it's encoding scheme is more efficient and it's handling
> Damian> of blessed data is considerably more sophisticated. But as
> Damian> I haven't used either extensively in recent times, I can't
> Damian> speak for their relative speed or reliability.
>
> I'd hope that right about now someone other than Graham or myself
> starts doing some talking.
>
> --
> Stephen
>
> "A duck!"
>
