[math] A little on serialization

[Mark R. Diggory]

I've been wiring in place some testing for the serialization of objects 
to disk and the deserialization back to objects. I'll be adding it and a
a Unit test example shortly, I'm hoping that others will join in and 
write some simple tests to verify that their code is properly serializable.

Another interesting point is that serialization can be customized to 
optimize it for storage considerations, for instance, if a large matrix 
were symetric, serialization could be written such that only one side of 
its data need be stored and the other side could be simple filed in with 
the stored data on recovery. Not really my idea...

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/serialization/examples/custom/index3.html

-Mark

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Mark Diggory
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Harvard MIT Data Center
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