On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote: > On 9 June 2011 09:40, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote: >> do you know what is the encoding scheme under message pack? > > It is very simple (like JSON and serializes only booleans, integers, > floats, strings, arrays and dictionaries) and is described here: > > - design: http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Design+of+Serialization > - format: http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Format+specification. > >> Huffman like? > > Kind of, but static. Common objects are serialized with very few bits. > >> It would be a nice student projects to get one version for Smalltalk > > I posted the links in my previous mail, there is already an > implementation on SqueakSource > (http://www.squeaksource.com/MessagePack). Also there is a high-level > implementation that can serialize any Smalltalk object > (http://www.squeaksource.com/STOMP). It seems to handle class changes > too.
Ok I missed that. > > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > www.lukas-renggli.ch >
