Hi. I am happy to announce the new release version 1.5. At the end of this message is the list of changes.
Fuel is a binary serialization system for Smalltalk that provides extremely fast deserialization. More information on our home page<http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel> . In next days we will update it. We have much more to show especially in benchmarks section. We have many ideas and new issues<http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/list>to keep working on Fuel. You can download this version in Pharo with: Gofer new squeaksource: 'Fuel'; package: 'ConfigurationOfFuel'; load. ((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfFuel) project version: '1.5') load. Again, I have to thank ESUG for sponsoring me for Fuel development through the SummerTalk program. Changes: - Initialize instances after materialization implementing #fuelAfterMaterialization. - Ignore transient instance variables overriding #fuelIgnoredInstanceVariableNames. - Limit serialization progress bar to update at most once every 250 milliseconds. - Traits are serialized and materialized as a regular objects ( http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/detail?id=59). - Removed mappers system cache (Eliot). - Many new tests. - Benchmarks: compare Fuel against StOMP, SRP, SIXX, Magma, EsAndEm and Fuel with progress bar. - Benchmarks: new samples, scripts, and CSV exporter. - Benchmarks: measure serialization stream size. - Removed some redundant #fuelAccept:. - Several aesthetic changes in protocols, categories and comments. - Now #materialize answers the materialized root. - Removed special cluster for HashedCollection.Now #rehash is sended via #fuelAfterMaterialization. - MethodContext serialization does not serialize temps ( http://code.google.com/p/fuel/issues/detail?id=61). - Classes and Traits now serialize its environment (testCreateWithSmalltalkGlobalsEnvironment). - Fixed serialization of non-octet characters (testCharacter). - Fixed a bug serializing the system dictionary. FLWellKnownObjectsCluster handles it. (testSmalltalkGlobals). - Fixed a bug serializing class variables (testClassVariable). - Fixed a bug when serializing a collection with size greater than 1^16 with repeated elements inside. - Fixed testTwoCompiledMethodsReferencingSameClassVariable. - Optimization: instanceIndexes are directly created with the exact size (Henrik).
