Re: faster serializer?

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Brian Moon wrote: > I would love to see a faster serializer. I think serializing has a lot of > upsides but the downside right now is performance. Microbenchmarking showed a two-fold speed decrease with the patch I committed (serializing a couple of objects with a few slots each). The serializer has to scan once through all objects/slots, so we cannot expect it to become much faster than it is right now. The deserializer code should be cleaned up, but I don't see any significant potential on improving the speed of it. Anyway, there are only few applications which would really gain from further refinement in this area. E.g., real-life applications such as IRCG spend less than a percent of their run-time in this part of the code. - Sascha Experience IRCG http://schumann.cx/ http://schumann.cx/ircg